Further images
Free-blown in clear pale green glass with
turquoise-blue handles. The elongated, piriform
body has a pair of applied blue ‘frilled’ trails
running vertically down either side of the body beneath the small ring handles, the tall
cylindrical neck has an outward-flared mouth
with inward-folded tubular rim, the flask is set
on a flaring circular foot with concave base and
pontil mark. Ink on the base reads ‘Beth Gibrin,
Palestine...’. Intact.
Provenance
Found at Beth Gibrin, Palestine
Lt. Gen. A.H.L.F. Pitt-Rivers; acquired 1898-1899
George Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers (1890- 1966), Dorset, UK; by descent from the above
Anonymous Sale; Sotheby’s, London, 22nd
December 1965
Mrs Traudi (1922-2013) and Professor Peter H. Plesch (1918-2013), Newcastle-
under-Lyme, UK; acquired from the above,
collection number AGv 17C
Their sale; Christie’s, London, 28th April 2009
Sheikh Saud Al-Thani (1966-2014), London, UK and Paris, France; acquired from the above
Exhibitions
The Pitt Rivers Museum, Dorset, UKLiterature
Compare Nina Kunina, Ancient Glass in the Hermitage Collection (St. Petersburg, 1997), nos.404-405Publications
Catalogue of Objects Collected by General Pitt Rivers from 1898-1899, p.2269, the vessel marked as coming from Beth Gibrin, PalestineSotheby's, London, UK, Catalogue of Egyptian, Western Asiatic, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, African, American, Oceanic and Indian Sculpture, 22nd December 1965, lot 121
Christie's, London, UK, The Plesch Collection of Ancient Glass, 28th April 2009, lot 3
