LATE 6TH-5TH CENTURY B.C.

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AN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CORE-FORMED GLASS ALABASTRON
LATE 6TH-5TH CENTURY B.C.
The bright blue body wound with marvered yellow and turquoise bands and zigzag trails, an applied turquoise trail around everted rim edge, applied twin 'duck head' handles
3½ in. (9 cm.) high

Provenance

Plesch collection (AGv 9hA); acquired from Dr Leo Mildenberg, Zurich, December 1977.

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Lot Essay

EXHIBITED AND PUBLISHED:
50th Anniversary Exhibition of The Circle of Glass Collectors, Broadfield House Glass Museum and The Pilkington Glass Museum, 1987-1988, no. 2.

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