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A Greek core-formed glass aryballos
7 July 2016, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street£4,000 - £5,000
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A Greek core-formed glass aryballos
Eastern Mediterranean, circa late 6th-5th Century B.C.
Cobalt blue in colour, the ribbed globular body with flaring mouth, 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 turquoise thread applied to the edge of the rim, and twin cobalt blue handles with knobbed tails, 7.3cm high
Eastern Mediterranean, circa late 6th-5th Century B.C.
Cobalt blue in colour, the ribbed globular body with flaring mouth, 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 turquoise thread applied to the edge of the rim, and twin cobalt blue handles with knobbed tails, 7.3cm high
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Provenance:
Property of a gentleman.
Sotheby's New York, 10 December 2008, lot 122 (part).
Japanese private collection, acquired in London in the late 1970s to early 1980s.