Lot Essay
Said to have been found in Madaba, Jordan
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THE PROPERTY OF DANIEL M. FRIEDENBERG
AN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CORE-FORMED GLASS ALABASTRON
CIRCA 2ND-MID 1ST CENTURY B.C.
Details
AN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CORE-FORMED GLASS ALABASTRON
Circa 2nd-Mid 1st Century B.C.
Cobalt blue in color, the straight-sided fusiform body with convex pointed bottom, tapering neck and horizontal rim-disk, with an applied opaque white marvered thread attached at the rim and wound spirally along the entire length of the body, tooled into a close-set feather pattern, with twin blue lugs on the shoulders
4¾ in. (12.1 cm) high
Circa 2nd-Mid 1st Century B.C.
Cobalt blue in color, the straight-sided fusiform body with convex pointed bottom, tapering neck and horizontal rim-disk, with an applied opaque white marvered thread attached at the rim and wound spirally along the entire length of the body, tooled into a close-set feather pattern, with twin blue lugs on the shoulders
4¾ in. (12.1 cm) high
Provenance
Fine Antiquities, Sotheby's New York, 20 May 1982, lot 212