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EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN, POSSIBLY FROM RHODES CIRCA LATE 6TH-5TH CENTURY B.C.
Details
A CORE-FORMED GLASS AMPHORISKOS
eastern mediterranean, possibly from rhodes
circa late 6th-5th century b.c.
Cobalt blue in color, the conical body with rounded shoulders, the base-knob with rounded edge, with sloping shoulders, a cylindrical neck and inward-sloping rim disk, with opaque yellow and opaque turquoise threads wound spirally on the body, marvered and tooled into a zig-zag pattern on the middle of the body, with opaque yellow on the rim and on the edge of the base-knob, and twin turquosie vertical handles extending from the shoulders to the neck; together with an Egyptian glass papyrus column ear stud, dark blue in color with opaque yellow spiral thread, joined to a bronze cylinder with a long wire knobed at the end, later fashioned to serve as a lid/applicator (ear stud not illustrated)
3 in. (8.3 cm) high (2)
eastern mediterranean, possibly from rhodes
circa late 6th-5th century b.c.
Cobalt blue in color, the conical body with rounded shoulders, the base-knob with rounded edge, with sloping shoulders, a cylindrical neck and inward-sloping rim disk, with opaque yellow and opaque turquoise threads wound spirally on the body, marvered and tooled into a zig-zag pattern on the middle of the body, with opaque yellow on the rim and on the edge of the base-knob, and twin turquosie vertical handles extending from the shoulders to the neck; together with an Egyptian glass papyrus column ear stud, dark blue in color with opaque yellow spiral thread, joined to a bronze cylinder with a long wire knobed at the end, later fashioned to serve as a lid/applicator (ear stud not illustrated)
3 in. (8.3 cm) high (2)
Literature
Sangiorgi, Collezione di Vetri Antichi, no. 24 (said to have been found with lot 6).