EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN, CIRCA LATE 5TH-6TH CENTURY A.D.

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A LATE ROMAN OR BYZANTINE PALE GREEN GLASS AMPHORISKOS
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN, CIRCA LATE 5TH-6TH CENTURY A.D.
With wide neck, broad shoulders and tapering body, a band of dark blue trailing pincered into waves around the shoulders with pale green trailing above, a trailed spiral band in dark blue glass around neck and lower body, applied loop handles at shoulders
5¼ in. (13.3 cm.) high

來源

Private collection, USA, 1980s.
Anonymous sale; Gorny & Mosch, Germany, 22 June 2005, lot 52.

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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Another almost identical container with blue trailing on pale bluish-green glass is preserved in the Newark Museum of Art, New Jersey, cf. S. H. Auth, Ancient Glass as the Newark Museum, Newark, 1976, p. 146, no. 188, while a further example was found in a 6th century A.D. Byzantine grave in Israel, cf. D. P. Barag, 'A tomb cave of the Byzantine period near Netic Ha Lamed He', Atiqot Hebrew Series 7, 1974, pl. 27.