Live Auction 5951Antiquities Including the Plesch Collection of Ancient Glass
Lot 73

AN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CORE-FORMED GLASS ALABASTRON

CIRCA 5TH CENTURY B.C.

Closed28 April 2009

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GBP 11,250

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AN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CORE-FORMED GLASS ALABASTRON
CIRCA 5TH CENTURY B.C.
The dark turquoise body wound with three groups of fine marvered white spiralling threads, an applied yellow trail around the everted rim edge, applied twin 'duck head' handles
3½ in. (9 cm.) high

Plesch collection (AGv 9D); acquired Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, 26 September 1972, lot 6, previously in the Thomas Barlow Walker (1840-1928) collection, Minneapolis, U.S.A.

Specialist note

Cf. D. F. Grose, Early Ancient Glass, The Toledo Museum of Art, 1989, pp. 114-115, where this type as a sub-class of Class I:F is discussed in detail.