Lot Essay
For a similar example see no. 125 in Grose, The Toledo Museum of Art, Early Ancient Glass.
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EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN OR ITALY MID 4TH-EARLY 3RD CENTURY B.C
Details
A CORE-FORMED GLASS ALABASTRON
eastern mediterranean or italy
mid 4th-early 3rd century b.c
Cobalt-blue in color, the straight-side cylindrical body with rounded bottom, angled shoulders, a tapering cylindrical neck and a broad horizontal rim-disk, the body with alternating bands of opaque white, opaque yellow and opaque turqoise marvered threads tooled into a close-set feather pattern in nine vertical panels, with an opaque yellow thread at the edge of the rim, and twin cobalt blue un-pierced handles below the shoulders
6 in. (16.5 cm) high
eastern mediterranean or italy
mid 4th-early 3rd century b.c
Cobalt-blue in color, the straight-side cylindrical body with rounded bottom, angled shoulders, a tapering cylindrical neck and a broad horizontal rim-disk, the body with alternating bands of opaque white, opaque yellow and opaque turqoise marvered threads tooled into a close-set feather pattern in nine vertical panels, with an opaque yellow thread at the edge of the rim, and twin cobalt blue un-pierced handles below the shoulders
6 in. (16.5 cm) high
Provenance
Martinetti Collection
Literature
Sangiorgi, Collezione de Vetri Antichi, no. 9, pl. V.