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ANCIENT GLASS, LOTS 133-153
THE PROPERTY OF A
MID-ATLANTIC COLLECTOR
AN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CORE-FORMED GLASS AMPHORISKOS
CIRCA LATE 6TH-5TH CENTURY B.C.
Details
AN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CORE-FORMED GLASS AMPHORISKOS
CIRCA LATE 6TH-5TH CENTURY B.C.
Dark blue in color, the ovoid body with rounded shoulders, a cylindrical neck and inward-sloping rim-disk, the applied opaque yellow and white marvered threads wound spirally on the body, and tooled into a zigzag pattern in the middle of the body, with vertical furrows created during tooling, an opaque white thread along the rim, with twin dark blue vertical handles and a knob-base
3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm.) high
CIRCA LATE 6TH-5TH CENTURY B.C.
Dark blue in color, the ovoid body with rounded shoulders, a cylindrical neck and inward-sloping rim-disk, the applied opaque yellow and white marvered threads wound spirally on the body, and tooled into a zigzag pattern in the middle of the body, with vertical furrows created during tooling, an opaque white thread along the rim, with twin dark blue vertical handles and a knob-base
3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm.) high
Provenance
with Barakat Antiquities, Jerusalem, 1980.