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LOT 0061

Greek Glass Trefoil Oinochoe

6TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.

3 in. (45 grams, 75 mm high).

An opaque blue glass oinochoe with trefoil mouth, handle and discoid foot, polychrome bands and chevrons around the body and plain yellow band to lip; iridescent surfaces.

Provenance

French collection, 1960s-early 2000s.
From an important Paris gallery, France.

Literature

Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession numbers 17.194.766 and 17.194.743, for similar.

CONDITION
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LOT 0061

Greek Glass Trefoil Oinochoe

Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,560

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