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LOT 0096
Large Hellenistic Core-Formed Amphoriskos
2ND-1ST CENTURY BC
8 1/4" (317 grams total, 21cm including stand.).
A substantial blue glass amphoriskos with inverted ovoid body, broad shoulder, cylindrical neck and everted rim flanked by two applied handles and globular foot; decorated with concentric bands of geometric motifs in white and yellow glass; accompanied by a custom-made display stand.
ProvenanceProperty of a London businessman; acquired from Serodine Gallery, Ascona, Switzerland in 2011; ex South German private collection, since the 1960s; this lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate number no. 10434-170711.
LiteratureCf. Goldstein, S.M., Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, New York, 1979, items 268-272.
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