Lot 225
225
A LATE ROMAN OR BYZANTINE PALE GREEN GLASS AMPHORISKOS
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 2… Read more
A LATE ROMAN OR BYZANTINE PALE GREEN GLASS AMPHORISKOS

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

Details
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
Provenance
Private collection, USA, 1980s.
Anonymous sale; Gorny & Mosch, Germany, 22 June 2005, lot 52.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

If you wish to view the condition report of this lot, please sign in to your account.

Sign in
View condition report

Lot Essay

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.

More from Antiquities

View All
View All