CIRCA 6TH CENTURY A.D.

Details

A BYZANTINE GREEN GLASS SQUARE-SIDED FLASK
CIRCA 6TH CENTURY A.D.
Two sides decorated with a palm frond, the other two with eight radiating spokes, the short cylindrical neck with everted and inward-folded rim
3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Nahman collection: sold Collection Maurice Nahman, Hotel Drouot, Paris, 30 November 1953, lot 166.
Kofler-Truniger collection: sold Ancient Glass formerly in the Kofler-Truniger Collection, Christie's London, 5 March 1985, lot 12.

Exhibited

Kunstmuseum Luzern, 1981.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Exhibition catalogue, 3000 Jahre Glaskunst von der Antike bis zum Jugendstil, Kunstmuseum Luzern, 1981, p. 90, no. 325.

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