Lot Essay
For a similar example see no. 147, p. 161 in Grose, The Toledo Museum of Art, Early Ancient Glass.
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ANCIENT GLASS FROM THE COLLECTION OF GEOFFREY SOWASH
AN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CORE-FORMED GLASS OINOCHOE
CIRCA MID 4TH-EARLY 3RD CENTURY B.C.
Details
AN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CORE-FORMED GLASS OINOCHOE
CIRCA MID 4TH-EARLY 3RD CENTURY B.C.
Cobalt blue in color, the tapering body with rounded shoulders, a cylindrical neck and a trefoil mouth, on a pad base, the vertical handle arching from the shoulders to the rim, the body with applied opaque yellow and white threads wound spirally, marvered and tooled into a feather pattern, applied opaque yellow on the rim and base, and another yellow trail wound spirally around the neck
5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm.) high
CIRCA MID 4TH-EARLY 3RD CENTURY B.C.
Cobalt blue in color, the tapering body with rounded shoulders, a cylindrical neck and a trefoil mouth, on a pad base, the vertical handle arching from the shoulders to the rim, the body with applied opaque yellow and white threads wound spirally, marvered and tooled into a feather pattern, applied opaque yellow on the rim and base, and another yellow trail wound spirally around the neck
5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm.) high
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 13 December 1979, lot 170.
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