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Auction archive: Lot number 356

A Hellenistic core-formed glass unguentarium

Auction 03.07.1996
3 Jul 1996
Estimate
£1,500 - £1,800
ca. US$2,330 - US$2,797
Price realised:
£1,610
ca. US$2,501
Auction archive: Lot number 356

A Hellenistic core-formed glass unguentarium

Auction 03.07.1996
3 Jul 1996
Estimate
£1,500 - £1,800
ca. US$2,330 - US$2,797
Price realised:
£1,610
ca. US$2,501
Beschreibung:

A Hellenistic core-formed glass unguentarium 3rd Century B.C., Eastern Mediterranean Cobalt-blue ground with opaque white marvered decoration, the ovoid body with stemmed splayed foot and cylindrical neck with horizontal rim, the shoulder with band of tooled ribbing and twin disc handles, an opaque white trail around the rim and spiralling down the neck and body, slight iridescence; and another core-formed glass amphoriskos with cobalt blue ground and yellowish-white marvered trail decoration, the ovoid body with knobbed foot, tall cylindrical neck and horizontal rim with twin vertical handles, the trail spiralling from the rim to the foot with tooled zigzag decoration below the shoulder, iridescent, both mounted 3 1/8in. (8cm.) high av. (2)

Auction archive: Lot number 356
Auction:
Datum:
3 Jul 1996
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

A Hellenistic core-formed glass unguentarium 3rd Century B.C., Eastern Mediterranean Cobalt-blue ground with opaque white marvered decoration, the ovoid body with stemmed splayed foot and cylindrical neck with horizontal rim, the shoulder with band of tooled ribbing and twin disc handles, an opaque white trail around the rim and spiralling down the neck and body, slight iridescence; and another core-formed glass amphoriskos with cobalt blue ground and yellowish-white marvered trail decoration, the ovoid body with knobbed foot, tall cylindrical neck and horizontal rim with twin vertical handles, the trail spiralling from the rim to the foot with tooled zigzag decoration below the shoulder, iridescent, both mounted 3 1/8in. (8cm.) high av. (2)

Auction archive: Lot number 356
Auction:
Datum:
3 Jul 1996
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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