拍品专文
This large and elaborate cosmetic tube was most likely only decorative, as the complex superstructure makes it difficult to use as a container. For a related example see no. 77 in Harden, Glass of the Caesars.
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PROPERTY FROM A SWISS PRIVATE COLLECTION
A BYZANTINE GLASS QUADRUPLE UNGUENTARIUM
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN, CIRCA 5TH CENTURY A.D.
细节
A BYZANTINE GLASS QUADRUPLE UNGUENTARIUM
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN, CIRCA 5TH CENTURY A.D.
Green in color, free-blown, pinched to create four compartments, with a square base and a slightly flaring rim, two sides with dark green folded ribbon thread along their length, which, together with the rim, supports an elaborate towering handle of dark green folded ribbon thread, topped with a small central knob
11¾ in. (29.8 cm) high
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN, CIRCA 5TH CENTURY A.D.
Green in color, free-blown, pinched to create four compartments, with a square base and a slightly flaring rim, two sides with dark green folded ribbon thread along their length, which, together with the rim, supports an elaborate towering handle of dark green folded ribbon thread, topped with a small central knob
11¾ in. (29.8 cm) high
来源
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 8 December 1995, lot 210.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 12 June 2002, lot 199.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 12 June 2002, lot 199.
拍场告示
Please note the additional provenance: Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 8 December 1995, lot 210.