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LOT 0538
Greek Melted Core-Formed Glass Alabastron
4TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.
4 1/8 in. (46.9 grams, 10.5 cm).
With fusiform body, slender neck and broad flange rim, decorated with white and blue marvered feathering and spiralling trails; deformed, remains of attachment point for handle.
ProvenanceMr F.D. collection, acquired on the European art market, 1975 to present.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
Cf. Auth, H., Ancient Glass at the Newark Museum, Newark, 1976, p.29, for similar.
FootnotesThe design of this vessel was applied in blue and white bands: it belongs to the Hellenistic vases that were core-formed, pre-blown. According to some scholars the feather pattern was not used before the 4th century B.C.
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