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Lot 56*

A Greek core-formed glass oinochoe

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

£8,000 - £10,000

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A Greek core-formed glass oinochoe
Eastern Mediterranean or Italy, circa mid 4th - early 3rd Century B.C.
Cobalt blue in colour, the ovoid body with rounded shoulders, with a slightly tapering cylindrical neck and a trefoil mouth, on a circular pad base, the body with opaque yellow, white and turquoise marvered threads wound spirally around the body and tooled into a zigzag pattern, yellow trailing around the neck, on the mouth and exterior of the foot, the vertical strap handle arching from the shoulder to the rim, 11.1cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
Property of a gentleman.
Christie's, New York, 12 December 2002, lot 33.
Property from a private collection, 1970s-1990s.

Literature:
For similar oinochoai also belonging to Mediterranean group 2, cf. D.B. Harden, Catalogue of Greek and Roman Glass in the British Museum, vol. 1, London, 1981, pl.XVII, nos. 302-3.

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