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A Greek core-formed glass squat alabastron
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A Greek core-formed glass squat alabastron
Possibly Italy, circa mid 4th-3rd Century B.C.
Cobalt blue in colour, the ribbed body with applied opaque yellow and white marvered threads wound spirally on the body, tooled into a zig-zag pattern, a yellow thread applied to the edge of the wide flat mouth, with a single remaining applied cobalt blue ring handle, 6.2cm high
Possibly Italy, circa mid 4th-3rd Century B.C.
Cobalt blue in colour, the ribbed body with applied opaque yellow and white marvered threads wound spirally on the body, tooled into a zig-zag pattern, a yellow thread applied to the edge of the wide flat mouth, with a single remaining applied cobalt blue ring handle, 6.2cm high
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Provenance:
Mildred (Miriam) Devor collection, Jerusalem, acquired prior to 1977.
Anonymous sale; Archaeological Center, Auction 54, Tel Aviv, 27 March 2013, lot 196.
Alabastra in this squat form are rare; see a larger example, with opaque yellow and white trailing, in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, acc. no. 17.194.795, and another in the British Museum, acc. no. 1873,0820.410. The latter example was discovered in Capua in Italy, an unusual find-spot for core-formed vessels, which are more usually discovered in Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean.