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LOT 0118
Greek Core-Formed Tall Glass Alabastron
6TH-5TH CENTURY B.C.
3 5/8 in. (36.69 grams, 91 mm).
With a fusiform body, slender neck and broad flange rim, decorated with marvered feathering and spiralling trails; two lateral loop handles and a pinched lateral lug.
ProvenanceAnonymous sale, Binoche & Giquello, Paris, 30th May 2012, no.124.
Private collection, Switzerland.
Accompanied by a copy of French passport no.0150269.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.13188-249220.
Cf. The Corning Museum of Glass, accession number 50.1.5, for similar, in Goldstein, S.M., Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning-New York, 1979, pp.124-125, no.257; cf. The Metropolitan Museum, accession number 30.115.33, for another similar alabastron.
FootnotesAlabastra of this typology, core-formed, trail-decorated and tooled, are typical of the Eastern Mediterranean. They were diminutive examples of a shape popularly produced for perfumed oils in the Greek world. Larger forms are known in both glass and ceramics.
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LOT 0118
Greek Core-Formed Tall Glass Alabastron
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000€4,640 - 6,960 (for guidance only)$5,400 - 8,100 (for guidance only)
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