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A Greek core-formed glass oinochoe
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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
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.
























