AN APIS BULL PLAQUE, translucent blue body, horns, uraeus, hooves, 'field', opaque white parts of body and opaque pale green disk, with yellow eye, lids and ear, walking to right on field of stylized palmettes or acanthus leaves, outlined in yellow encircling cruciform flowers with large opaque red and white petals or smaller opaque white, red and yellow petals, in light blue matrix

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AN APIS BULL PLAQUE, translucent blue body, horns, uraeus, hooves, 'field', opaque white parts of body and opaque pale green disk, with yellow eye, lids and ear, walking to right on field of stylized palmettes or acanthus leaves, outlined in yellow encircling cruciform flowers with large opaque red and white petals or smaller opaque white, red and yellow petals, in light blue matrix
4th-2nd Century B.C.
1¼ x 1in. (3.2 x 2.5cm.)

Lot Essay

Cf. Christie's, Ancient Glass: formerly the Kofler-Truniger Collection, 5 and 6 March 1985, lot 251

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