Lot Essay
Cf. D. F. Grose, Early Ancient Glass, The Toledo Museum of Art, 1989, pp. 114-115, where this type as a sub-class of Class I:F is discussed in detail.
CIRCA 5TH CENTURY B.C.
Details
AN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CORE-FORMED GLASS ALABASTRON
CIRCA 5TH CENTURY B.C.
The dark turquoise body wound with three groups of fine marvered white spiralling threads, an applied yellow trail around the everted rim edge, applied twin 'duck head' handles
3½ in. (9 cm.) high
CIRCA 5TH CENTURY B.C.
The dark turquoise body wound with three groups of fine marvered white spiralling threads, an applied yellow trail around the everted rim edge, applied twin 'duck head' handles
3½ in. (9 cm.) high
Provenance
Plesch collection (AGv 9D); acquired Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, 26 September 1972, lot 6, previously in the Thomas Barlow Walker (1840-1928) collection, Minneapolis, U.S.A.
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