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LOT 0839
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 0839
Greek Core-Formed Tall Glass Alabastron
Estimate £3,500 - 4,500€4,060 - 5,220 (for guidance only)$4,730 - 6,080 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£1,750 (EUR 2,030; USD 2,363) ‡+BP*
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2nd millennium B.C.Estimate: £3,000 - 4,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £1,500
Ellipsoid in section and rectangular in plan with incuse squid motif; pierced for use as a bead, but the end-holes not joined; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 2.53 grams, 19.1 mm
Private collection, 1980s. Acquired on the UK art market. Private collection, London, UK. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.13484-262458.
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7th-6th century B.C.Estimate: £400 - 600 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £180
Fluted body tapering to a narrow foot, frieze of fine vertical lines around the body, zigzag band below, a pair of wide flat handles; restored. 235 grams, 17.2 cm wide
with H.A.C. AG, Basel, until 1999; thence by descent. -
Etruscan Oinochoe with Tongue Frieze
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Opening Bid: £725
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