TWO BYZANTINE GLASS VESSELS
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TWO BYZANTINE GLASS VESSELS

CIRCA 4TH-7TH CENTURY A.D.

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TWO BYZANTINE GLASS VESSELS
CIRCA 4TH-7TH CENTURY A.D.
Including a chalice, blue-green in color, free blown, the hemispherical body with the rim turned in, on a tall tapering stem and a flaring tooled foot; and a double unguentarium, blue-green in color, tapering toward the base, the rim folded in, with an applied thread wound spirally around the body, a thick looped trail pulled up each side and joined to a high arching handle
Chalice: 4 in. (10.2 cm.) high
Unguentarium: 8 in. (20.2 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Chalice:
Private Collection, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
with Fortuna Fine Arts, New York, 1999 (Solid Liquid, no. 156).
Unguentarium:
Evelyn Hamilton, New York, 1940s.
with Fortuna Fine Arts, New York, 1999.

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