Lot Essay
For the type see nos. 268-272, pp. 129-132 in Goldstein, Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass.
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THE PROPERTY OF A
MID-ATLANTIC COLLECTOR
AN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CORE-FORMED GLASS AMPHORISKOS
CIRCA 2ND-1ST CENTURY B.C.
Details
AN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CORE-FORMED GLASS AMPHORISKOS
CIRCA 2ND-1ST CENTURY B.C.
Dark blue in color, the ovoid body with rounded shoulders, a long cylindrical neck and inward-sloping rim-disk, an applied opaque yellow marvered thread attached at the rim and wound spirally along the body and tooled into a zigzag pattern in the middle of the body, with twin dark blue vertical handles and a knob-base
4 1/16 in. (10.3 cm.) high
CIRCA 2ND-1ST CENTURY B.C.
Dark blue in color, the ovoid body with rounded shoulders, a long cylindrical neck and inward-sloping rim-disk, an applied opaque yellow marvered thread attached at the rim and wound spirally along the body and tooled into a zigzag pattern in the middle of the body, with twin dark blue vertical handles and a knob-base
4 1/16 in. (10.3 cm.) high
Provenance
with Barakat Antiquities, Jerusalem, 1980.