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THE PROPERTY OF A NEW YORK PRIVATE COLLECTOR
A CORE-FORMED GLASS UNGUENTARIUM
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN OR ITALY, CIRCA 3RD CENTURY B.C.
Details
A CORE-FORMED GLASS UNGUENTARIUM
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN OR ITALY, CIRCA 3RD CENTURY B.C.
Cobalt blue in color, the ovoid body with rounded shoulders, a flaring long cylindrical neck, a disk rim, and high cylindrical foot splaying to the flat base, with opaque turquoise and yellow marvered threads wound spirally along the rim, neck and body and tooled into a zigzag pattern on the body, shallow vertical grooves from the tooling, with applied twin blue lugs on the body
4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm.) high
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN OR ITALY, CIRCA 3RD CENTURY B.C.
Cobalt blue in color, the ovoid body with rounded shoulders, a flaring long cylindrical neck, a disk rim, and high cylindrical foot splaying to the flat base, with opaque turquoise and yellow marvered threads wound spirally along the rim, neck and body and tooled into a zigzag pattern on the body, shallow vertical grooves from the tooling, with applied twin blue lugs on the body
4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm.) high
Provenance
with Gawain McKinley, London, 1992.
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