TWO BYZANTINE GREEN GLASS JUGS

CIRCA 5TH-6TH CENTURY A.D.

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TWO BYZANTINE GREEN GLASS JUGS
CIRCA 5TH-6TH CENTURY A.D.
One with bulbous body, on flared foot, with wide everted lip, the body decorated with horizontal band of pinched circles, a wavy trail around the neck, spiral trail just under the rim, an angled strap handle applied on the body and under rim, pulled up to form a thumb rest; and another pale green glass flask with angled lower body, on small circular foot, a pinched collar around the neck, handle applied on lower body with pinched trail below
Tallest: 11 in. (28 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, 20 November 1987, lot 132.

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Lot Essay

For similar tooled circle decoration cf. Exhibition catalogue, 3000 Jahre Glaskunst, Lucerne, 1981, pp. 112-113, no. 448 and E. M. Stern, Roman, Byzantine and Early Medieval Glass, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2001, pp. 278-280, nos. 144-145. These large jugs similar to item one, were copying the luxury silver jugs fashionable at the time.

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