Sale 2490
Christie's Special Exhibition Gallery
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7 December 2011
Price realised
USD 9,375
Estimate
AN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CORE-FORMED GLASS ALABASTRON CIRCA MID 2ND-EARLY 1ST CENTURY B.C. Cobalt blue in color, the cylindrical body with a rounded bottom, rounded shoulders, a long cylindrical neck and disk rim, with white and yellow marvered threads attached at the rim and wound spirally along the length of the body, tooled into a feather pattern along the body, a yellow trail on the rim, twin lugs on the shoulders 5¼ in. (13.3 cm.) high
Provenance
with Gawain McKinley, London, 1991.
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