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Lot 54*

A Greek core-formed glass aryballos

7 July 2016, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Greek core-formed glass aryballos
Eastern Mediterranean, circa late 6th-5th Century B.C.
Cobalt blue, the spherical body with cylindrical neck and disc shaped rim, with applied opaque yellow and turquoise marvered threads wound spirally on the body, tooled into a zig-zag pattern in the middle of the body, a yellow thread applied to the edge of the rim, and twin cobalt blue ring handles with knobbed tails, 6.1cm high

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Provenance:
Property of a gentleman.
Christie's, New York, 12 December 2002, lot 358.
A New York private collection of Ancient Glass,
1992-2002.
With Fortuna Fine Arts, Ltd., New York, 1992

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