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4887 - A large Hellenistic core-formed glass amphoriskos, ca. 1st century BCE. It has a dark blue-green body with opaque blue and white marbled decorations. Spiral patterns adorn the neck and base, with a closely spaced festoon pattern running down the body in between. The tapering body features a cylindrical neck and a disc rim; translucent dark brown vertical handles are applied at the shoulders and beneath the rim, and it has a knobbed foot. Height: 15.8 cm. Provenance: Christie’s London, April 26, 2006, lot 136. Private Dutch collection, Wassenaar.
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A large Hellenistic core-formed glass amphoriskos, ca. 1st century BCE. It has a dark blue-green body with opaque blue and white marbled decorations. Spiral patterns adorn the neck and base, with a closely spaced festoon pattern running down the body in between. The tapering body features a cylindrical neck and a disc rim; translucent dark brown vertical handles are applied at the shoulders and beneath the rim, and it has a knobbed foot. Height: 15.8 cm. Provenance: Christie’s London, April 26, 2006, lot 136. Private Dutch collection, Wassenaar. Published: P.W.L. Arts, *A Collection of Ancient Glass 500 B.C.–500 A.D.*, Lochem, 2000, p. 85, no. 08. [1]
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