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A NEW YORK PRIVATE COLLECTION OF ANCIENT GLASS
AN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CORE-FORMED GLASS ALABASTRON
CIRCA 5TH CENTURY B.C.
Details
AN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CORE-FORMED GLASS ALABASTRON
Circa 5th Century B.C.
Dark brown in color, the tapering cylindrical body with rounded bottom and rounded shoulders, a cylindrical neck and horizontal rim-disk, with opaque yellow and turquoise marvered threads wound spirally around the body and tooled into a tight zig-zag pattern covering the length of the body, yellow on the rim, with brown twin vertical ring handles with knobbed tails
4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm) high
Circa 5th Century B.C.
Dark brown in color, the tapering cylindrical body with rounded bottom and rounded shoulders, a cylindrical neck and horizontal rim-disk, with opaque yellow and turquoise marvered threads wound spirally around the body and tooled into a tight zig-zag pattern covering the length of the body, yellow on the rim, with brown twin vertical ring handles with knobbed tails
4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm) high
Provenance
Fortuna Fine Arts, Ltd., New York, 1995
Exhibited
Newark Museum, Fire and Light, 3000 Years of Glass Artistry, August 2001-January 2002