AN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CORE-FORMED GLASS AMPHORISKOS
ANCIENT GLASS FROM THE COLLECTION OF GEOFFREY SOWASH
AN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CORE-FORMED GLASS AMPHORISKOS

CIRCA LATE 6TH-EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.

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AN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CORE-FORMED GLASS AMPHORISKOS
CIRCA LATE 6TH-EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.
Dark blue in color with swirls of red, the ovoid body with rounded shoulders, a cylindrical neck and an inward-sloping rim, opaque yellow and turquoise threads wound spirally around the body, marvered and tooled into a zigzag pattern, with yellow and turquoise bands below, yellow and turquoise on the rim, with twin blue vertical handles and a base knob
3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm.) high
Provenance
with Noele and Ronald Mele, Ancient Works of Art, New York, 1987.

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