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Lot 59*

A Hellenistic core-formed glass alabastron

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

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A Hellenistic core-formed glass alabastron
Eastern Mediterranean, circa 2nd - mid 1st Century B.C.
The body piriform with a pointed base and applied lug handles with a disc rim, of translucent blue decorated with applied white festoons with white spiral trail above and below, 12.4cm high

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Provenance:
Property of a gentleman.
Sotheby's, New York, 10 December 2008, lot 123 (part).
Japanese private collection, acquired in Japan in 1980.

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