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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.
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