A large Hellenistic core-formed glass amphoriskos, ca. 1st century BCE.
a dark blue-green body with opaque blue and white marvered decorations. Spiral patterns at the neck and base, in between a close-set festoon pattern over the body. The tapering body with cylindrical neck and disc rim, translucent dark brown vertical handles applied at shoulders and under rim, with knobbed foot.
h. 15,8 cm.
Proveance: Christie's London, 26th April, 2006, lot 136. Private Dutch collection, Wassenaar. Published: P.W.L. Arts, A collection of Ancient Glass 500 B.C.-500 A.D., Lochem, 2000, p. 85, no. 08.
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a dark blue-green body with opaque blue and white marvered decorations. Spiral patterns at the neck and base, in between a close-set festoon pattern over the body. The tapering body with cylindrical neck and disc rim, translucent dark brown vertical handles applied at shoulders and under rim, with knobbed foot.
h. 15,8 cm.
Proveance: Christie's London, 26th April, 2006, lot 136. Private Dutch collection, Wassenaar. Published: P.W.L. Arts, A collection of Ancient Glass 500 B.C.-500 A.D., Lochem, 2000, p. 85, no. 08.
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