A Greek core-formed glass amphoriskos
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A Greek core-formed glass amphoriskos
Circa late 6th-5th Century B.C.
The ribbed ovoid body with opaque cobalt blue ground and yellow and turquoise marvered trails, with applied flat-bottomed knopped base, the handles and disc rim with yellow trail, 8cm high
Footnotes:
Provenance:
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 13 December 1995, lot 12.
The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 011), acquired from the above sale.
Published:
J. v.d. Groen & H. van Rossum, Romeins Glas uit Particulier Bezit, Utrecht, 2011, p.16.
For a similar roughly made example in the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, which David Grose thought could have been made in Rhodes in the late 6th to 5th Century B.C., see David F. Grose, Early Ancient Glass, The Toledo Museum of Art (Toledo 1989), p.144, no.99.
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Circa late 6th-5th Century B.C.
The ribbed ovoid body with opaque cobalt blue ground and yellow and turquoise marvered trails, with applied flat-bottomed knopped base, the handles and disc rim with yellow trail, 8cm high
Footnotes:
Provenance:
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 13 December 1995, lot 12.
The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 011), acquired from the above sale.
Published:
J. v.d. Groen & H. van Rossum, Romeins Glas uit Particulier Bezit, Utrecht, 2011, p.16.
For a similar roughly made example in the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, which David Grose thought could have been made in Rhodes in the late 6th to 5th Century B.C., see David F. Grose, Early Ancient Glass, The Toledo Museum of Art (Toledo 1989), p.144, no.99.
This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: *
* VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.
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A Greek core-formed glass amphoriskos
Estimate £1,500 - £2,000
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