Lot Essay
For a nearly-identical example, now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, see no. 71 in D.F. Grose, Early Ancient Glass, The Toledo Museum of Art.
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PROPERTY FROM A GERMAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
AN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CORE-FORMED GLASS SQUAT ALABASTRON
CIRCA MID 4TH-EARLY 3RD CENTURY B.C.
Details
AN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CORE-FORMED GLASS SQUAT ALABASTRON
CIRCA MID 4TH-EARLY 3RD CENTURY B.C.
Black in color, the tapering body with rounded shoulders and a cylindrical neck, flaring to the broad disk rim, on a slightly curving base, the body with bands of opaque white, yellow, and turquoise finely marvered threads wound spirally and tooled into a feather pattern in thirteen columns, an applied yellow thread at the edge of the rim, the two black ring handles below the shoulders
3 9/16 in. (9.1 cm.) high
CIRCA MID 4TH-EARLY 3RD CENTURY B.C.
Black in color, the tapering body with rounded shoulders and a cylindrical neck, flaring to the broad disk rim, on a slightly curving base, the body with bands of opaque white, yellow, and turquoise finely marvered threads wound spirally and tooled into a feather pattern in thirteen columns, an applied yellow thread at the edge of the rim, the two black ring handles below the shoulders
3 9/16 in. (9.1 cm.) high
Provenance
with Wilhelm Henrich, Frankfurt, 1960.
Margret Köser, Hamburg; thence by descent.
Margret Köser, Hamburg; thence by descent.
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