Lot Essay
For a similar example see no. 93 in Grose, Toledo Museum of Art, Early Ancient Glass.
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THE PROPERTY OF A NEW YORK PRIVATE COLLECTOR
AN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CORE-FORMED GLASS ALABASTRON
POSSIBLY RHODIAN, CIRCA LATE 6TH-EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.
Details
AN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CORE-FORMED GLASS ALABASTRON
POSSIBLY RHODIAN, CIRCA LATE 6TH-EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.
Cobalt blue in color, the cylindrical body with a rounded bottom, rounded shoulders, a short cylindrical neck and horizontal disk rim, with an opaque white marvered thread wound spirally around the neck and body, tooled into a festoon pattern along the body, a yellow marvered thread wound spirally around the neck, white trail on the rim, the twin vertical ring handles with long tails
2¾ in. (7 cm.) high
POSSIBLY RHODIAN, CIRCA LATE 6TH-EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.
Cobalt blue in color, the cylindrical body with a rounded bottom, rounded shoulders, a short cylindrical neck and horizontal disk rim, with an opaque white marvered thread wound spirally around the neck and body, tooled into a festoon pattern along the body, a yellow marvered thread wound spirally around the neck, white trail on the rim, the twin vertical ring handles with long tails
2¾ in. (7 cm.) high
Provenance
with Gawain McKinley, London, 1991.
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