GREEK CORE-FORMED AMPHORISKOS

GREEK CORE-FORMED AMPHORISKOS

Slightly translucent dark blue glass, rim disk, edged with opaque yellow thread, short neck and ovoid body with opaque yellow and turquoise trailing, combed and marvered into zigzag pattern with three horizontal yellow lines above and two below, two opposing opaque blue vertical handles. Intact.

Ex coll. A.v.D.; before, coll. P.L.W. Arts, Netherlands
H. 7 cm.

Eastern Mediterranean (Rhodes?), 5th cent. BC

Publ: P.L.W. Arts, A Collection of Ancient Glass, Lochem 2000, no. 2