Lot Essay
Cf. D. F. Grose, Early Ancient Glass, The Toledo Museum of Art, 1989, p. 168, no. 166, for similar.
2ND/MID-1ST CENTURY B.C.
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A HELLENISTIC CORE-FORMED GLASS ALABASTRON
2ND/MID-1ST CENTURY B.C.
The dark blue-black ground streaked with opaque red, the piriform body with a marvered opaque white spiral trail, tooled into a festoon and feather pattern around the upper body, with applied twin vestigial handles
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) high
2ND/MID-1ST CENTURY B.C.
The dark blue-black ground streaked with opaque red, the piriform body with a marvered opaque white spiral trail, tooled into a festoon and feather pattern around the upper body, with applied twin vestigial handles
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) high
Provenance
Plesch collection (AGv 13A); acquired Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, 26 September 1972, lot 20, previously in the Thomas Barlow Walker (1840-1928) collection, Minneapolis, U.S.A.
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