Double cabbage flask with superstructure. Eastern Mediterranean, 4th - 6th century AD. H 30.5cm. Bluish clear glass. U-shaped body made of two long tubes with a thin thread in eight turns, with rounded lips, rounded and flattened base, with an attached ball. Two thin loop handles on either side, on which the three-tiered basket handle made of curved thick threads rests. The top tier consists of a loop, the lower tiers each of an M-shaped element. Partial light coating, partial fine iridescence, individual glued breaks in the structure, but complete. Provenance: ex Gorny & Mosch, auction 275, Munich 2020, lot 253; ex Shlomo Moussaieff Collection, 1948-2000; ex Hirsch Nachfolger, auction 331, Munich 2017, 551.

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