Lot 66
66
AN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CORE-FORMED GLASS OINOCHOE
THE PROPERTY OF A NEW YORK PRIVATE COLLECTOR
AN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CORE-FORMED GLASS OINOCHOE

CIRCA MID 4TH-EARLY 3RD CENTURY B.C.

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AN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CORE-FORMED GLASS OINOCHOE
CIRCA MID 4TH-EARLY 3RD CENTURY B.C.
Black in color, the ovoid body with straight sides and a downturned taper, the shoulders rounded, with a slightly tapering cylindrical neck and a trefoil mouth, on a circular pad base, the body with opaque yellow, white, turquoise and red marvered threads wound spirally around the body and tooled into a zigzag pattern, yellow spiral trailing around the neck, a yellow trail on the mouth and exterior of the foot, the vertical strap handle arching from the shoulder to the rim
4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm.) high
Provenance
with Gawain McKinley, London, 1987.

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Lot Essay

The present example can be classified as Grose's Class II:A, form II:3, with oinochoai often of exceptional scale. For a similar example in dark blue with upturned festoons, see fig. 76, p. 118 in Grose, The Toledo Museum of Art, Early Ancient Glass.

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