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LOT 0551
Greek Core-Formed Glass Aryballos
CIRCA 5TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.
3 in. (70 grams, 78 mm).
In opaque blue glass, flask shaped with shallow vertical channelling and polychrome feathering, trails to the neck and broad everted rim; iridescent surfaces; restored.
ProvenanceEx Maurice Mathieu.
Acquired from Asfar, Lebanon, 1960s.
Art Auction, Rémy Le Fur & Associés, 10 October 2012, lot 130.
Accompanied by a copy of a French cultural passport no.116789.
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession number 91.1.1348, for a comparable example.
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LOT 0551
Greek Core-Formed Glass Aryballos
Estimate £800 - 1,000€930 - 1,160 (for guidance only)$1,080 - 1,350 (for guidance only)
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