GrG016
Eastern Mediterranean core formed glass Alabastron.
6th-5th century BC
H. 9.84 cm (3 7/8 in)
Intact.
$5,600.
The alabastron with cylindrical body, convex bottom, rounded shoulder, short cylindrical neck and broad horizontal rim-disk. Two vertical ring handles with knobbed tails set at different heights on the upper body. Opaque reddish-brown ground with opaque yellow and opaque turquoise-blue decoration, in spiral design at upper part of the body, continuing down to horizontal zigzag pattern along the body.
Cf. Grose, D. F., New York, 1989, pp. 97, 140, no. 85.
Grose, D. F., The Toledo Museum of Art. Early Ancient Glass, New York, 1989.
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