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The amphoriskos not illustrated.
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Property from the Paul and Helen Zuckerman Collection
THREE ROMAN GLASS VESSELS
CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
Details
THREE ROMAN GLASS VESSELS
CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
Including a double head flask, highly iridescent, each side with the head of a child with horizontal curls; a pale blue and white marbled bottle with an ovoid body; and an amber date flask; together with an Eastern Mediterranean core-formed glass amphoriskos, circa 3rd century B.C., cobalt blue in color, with yellow marvered threads wound spirally around the neck and body, tooled into a zigzag on the body, with twin handles
Bottle: 3¼ in. (8.3 cm.) high (4)
CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
Including a double head flask, highly iridescent, each side with the head of a child with horizontal curls; a pale blue and white marbled bottle with an ovoid body; and an amber date flask; together with an Eastern Mediterranean core-formed glass amphoriskos, circa 3rd century B.C., cobalt blue in color, with yellow marvered threads wound spirally around the neck and body, tooled into a zigzag on the body, with twin handles
Bottle: 3¼ in. (8.3 cm.) high (4)
Provenance
Acquired by Paul and Helen Zuckerman, Detroit, 1960s-1970s.
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