Greco-Phoenician Core-Formed Alabastron

In translucent deep blue glass with opaque yellow and turquoise threads. The vessel has a wide everted rim edged in turquoise, a short neck and a long tubular body widening at the rounded base. A trail of yellow spirals around the upper half of the body in an anticlockwise direction. The lower half is decorated with rows of turquoise and yellow threads tooled into a zigzag pattern, three trails of yellow below. Two handles in yellow are applied towards the middle of the body.

Exhibited: San Diego Museum of Man, c. 1956

Literature: A less elegant example is illustrated in E. Marianne Stern, Birgit Schlick-Nolte, ‘Early Glass of the Ancient World, 1600 BC-AD 50. The Ernesto Wolf Collection’, (Germany, 1994) pp. 204-205.

REFERENCE #

GL_GR_1005

CIVILIZATION

Greco-Phoenician, 500 B.C.E. – 400 B.C.E.

SIZE

H. 12.4 cm

CONDITION

Intact

PRICE

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PROVENANCE

Collection of the Dubois family, USA, acquired c.1920 and thence by descent.