AN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CORE-FORMED GLASS AMPHORISKOS
AN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CORE-FORMED GLASS AMPHORISKOS

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

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AN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CORE-FORMED GLASS AMPHORISKOS
CIRCA LATE 6TH-5TH CENTURY B.C.
Dark blue in color, the ovoid body with rounded shoulders, a cylindrical neck and inward-sloping rim, opaque yellow and turquoise threads wound spirally around the body, marvered and tooled into a zigzag pattern in the middle of the body, with a yellow and a turquoise band below, yellow on the rim and on the edge of the base knob, with twin yellow vertical handles with turquoise highlights
2 15/16 in. (7.5 cm.) high
Provenance
with Gawain McKinley, London.
Dr. Klaus Morkramer, Oberhausen, Germany, acquired from the above in 1981.

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