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LOT 0044

Sold for (Inc. bp): £6,350

GREEK CORE-FORMED GLASS ARYBALLOS
6TH-5TH CENTURY BC
2" (39.6 grams, 52mm).

A core-formed cobalt blue aryballos, squat in profile with yellow trailing to the rim and shoulder, turquoise waves to the body, applied yellow loop handles.

PROVENANCE:
Property of a London gentleman; formerly with Masaru Kawachi, Nagoya, Japan, 1975; this lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate number no. 10793-177844.

LITERATURE:
Cf. very similar vessel in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, under accession number 81.10.297.

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