A BYZANTINE GLASS JAR
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A BYZANTINE GLASS JAR

SYRO-PALESTINIAN, CIRCA MID 4TH-EARLY 5TH CENTURY A.D.

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A BYZANTINE GLASS JAR
SYRO-PALESTINIAN, CIRCA MID 4TH-EARLY 5TH CENTURY A.D.
Yellow-green in color, free blown, the bulbous body on a kicked base, the funnel mouth with an outfolded horizontal hollow rib, an applied blue-green trail wound spirally low on the body and zigzagged below, the twin blue-green handles pulled up from the shoulders, dipped onto the flange and joined to the rim
5½ in. (14 cm.) high
Provenance
with Fortuna Fine Arts, New York, 1999 (Solid Liquid, no. 175).

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For a similar example without handles see no. 117 in Stern, Roman, Byzantine, and Early Medieval Glass, 10 BCE-700 CE, Ernesto Wolf Collection.

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