THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A Hellenistic core-formed glass unguentarium
3RD CENTURY B.C., EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
Details
A Hellenistic core-formed glass unguentarium
3rd Century B.C., Eastern Mediterranean
Cobalt-blue ground with opaque white marvered decoration, the ovoid body with stemmed splayed foot and cylindrical neck with horizontal rim, the shoulder with band of tooled ribbing and twin disc handles, an opaque white trail around the rim and spiralling down the neck and body, slight iridescence; and another core-formed glass amphoriskos with cobalt blue ground and yellowish-white marvered trail decoration, the ovoid body with knobbed foot, tall cylindrical neck and horizontal rim with twin vertical handles, the trail spiralling from the rim to the foot with tooled zigzag decoration below the shoulder, iridescent, both mounted
3 1/8in. (8cm.) high av. (2)
3rd Century B.C., Eastern Mediterranean
Cobalt-blue ground with opaque white marvered decoration, the ovoid body with stemmed splayed foot and cylindrical neck with horizontal rim, the shoulder with band of tooled ribbing and twin disc handles, an opaque white trail around the rim and spiralling down the neck and body, slight iridescence; and another core-formed glass amphoriskos with cobalt blue ground and yellowish-white marvered trail decoration, the ovoid body with knobbed foot, tall cylindrical neck and horizontal rim with twin vertical handles, the trail spiralling from the rim to the foot with tooled zigzag decoration below the shoulder, iridescent, both mounted
3 1/8in. (8cm.) high av. (2)
Provenance
Bought by Edward Towry-Whyte at Sotheby's, 27 April, 1892, lot 584. From Cyprus. (For further details of provenance see introduction to lots 229-235).