A GREEK CORE-FORMED GLASS ALABASTRON AND A MINIATURE GREEK GLASS OINOCHOE
A GREEK CORE-FORMED GLASS ALABASTRON AND A MINIATURE GREEK GLASS OINOCHOE

CIRCA 5TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.

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A GREEK CORE-FORMED GLASS ALABASTRON AND A MINIATURE GREEK GLASS OINOCHOE
CIRCA 5TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.
The alabastron with long cylindrical blue glass body decorated with opaque white trailing combed into a feather pattern, cylindrical neck and rim disc edged in opaque white, with two lug-handles; the oinochoe in dark turquoise, with trefoil mouth and pad base edged in thin yellow trailing, the bulbous body with thin yellow and white spiral trailing and small trailed vertical handle
Item one: 4 3/8 in. (11 cm.) high
Item two: 1 7/8 in. (4.7 cm.) high
Provenance
Item one: Plesch Collection (AGv11C); acquired Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, 26 October 1972, lot 16.
Item two: Plesch Collection (AGv4h); acquired Dr. L. Mildenberg, Zurich, December 1977.

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