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Eastern Mediterranean core-formed cobalt blue glass amphoriskos with turquoise and yellow glass trailing
Height: 7.15 cm. (2 1/2 in.)
Rim and one handle with minor restoration, otherwise perfect.
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The cobalt glass piriform amphoriskos with short cylindrical neck, flaring rim, twin turquoise glass handles and knob base. The cobalt blue glass background with opaque turquoise glass and opaque yellow glass decoration. The turquoise glass trailing applied around rim. Opaque yellow glass trailing wound spirally around shoulder in few horizontal lines, then with opaque turquoise trailing tooled in zig-zag pattern on the body, below this one yellow and one turquoise horizontal threads, another yellow thread wound around the knob base. Vertical ribbing at the body, follow the zig-zag design.
Cf. Israeli, Y., - Jerusalem 2003, Cat. No.40, p. 56 (but for the color.)
Grose, D. F., - Toledo 1989, Cat. No.103, p. 145
Borowski Glass Collection 2002, Cat. No. V-9, p. 56
Israeli, Y., - Jerusalem 2003
Israeli, Y., Ancient Glass in the Israel Museum, The Eliahu Dobkin Collection and Other Gifts, Jerusalem, 2003.
Grose, D. F., - Toledo 1989
Grose, D. F., The Toledo Museum of Art. Early Ancient Glass, New York, 1989
Borowski Glass Collection 2002
Robert Steven Bianchi (ed.), Birgit Schlick-Nolte, G. Max Bernheimer, Dan Baraq, Reflections on Ancient Glass from the Borowski Collection, Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem, Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2002
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