57. Byzantine four-sided aryballos, c.6th century AD
Glass
Height: 9.3cm
11452 IVP
£ 9,800.00
Further images
Free-blown in transparent, deep amber-coloured glass. The body indented on four sides to create a square-shaped flask decorated around the middle with a hollow tubular flange, tooled out of the...
Free-blown in transparent, deep amber-coloured
glass. The body indented on four sides to create a
square-shaped flask decorated around the middle
with a hollow tubular flange, tooled out of the
vessel’s wall, a pair of handles drawn from just
below the short neck, and attached to the flattened
tubular lip, pontil mark to the underside. Intact.
Provenance
Christopher Sheppard, London, UKDr. Peter H. and Mrs Trudi Plesch, Newcastle-under-Lyme, UK: acquired from the above in 1982, collection number AGv 9hF
Christie's, London, Antiquities Including the Plesch Collection of Ancient Glass, 28th April 2009
Private collection, the Netherlands; acquired from the above, collection number 229
