Lot Essay
For a similar example see no. 119, p. 151 in Grose, Toledo Museum of Art, Early Ancient Glass.
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CIRCA LATE 6TH-5TH CENTURY B.C.
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AN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CORE-FORMED GLASS ARYBALLOS
CIRCA LATE 6TH-5TH CENTURY B.C.
Cobalt blue in color, the spherical body with a rounded base, a short cylindrical neck, and a wide funnel-shaped mouth, with turquoise and yellow marvered threads wound spirally along the body, tooled into a zigzag pattern in the center of the body, with vertical grooves from the tooling, turquoise on the rim, the applied twin cobalt blue handles with tails
2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm.) high
CIRCA LATE 6TH-5TH CENTURY B.C.
Cobalt blue in color, the spherical body with a rounded base, a short cylindrical neck, and a wide funnel-shaped mouth, with turquoise and yellow marvered threads wound spirally along the body, tooled into a zigzag pattern in the center of the body, with vertical grooves from the tooling, turquoise on the rim, the applied twin cobalt blue handles with tails
2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm.) high
Provenance
Private Collection, Hamburg, 1980s.
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