Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: 57. Byzantine four-sided aryballos, c.6th century AD
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: 57. Byzantine four-sided aryballos, c.6th century AD
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57. Byzantine four-sided aryballos, c.6th century AD
Glass
Height: 9.3cm
11452 IVP
£ 9,800.00
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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...

Provenance

Christopher Sheppard, London, UK
Dr. 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

Literature

Compare an example in the J. Paul Getty Museum, California, USA, acc. no.71.AF.80

Publications

Christie's, London, Antiquities Including the Plesch Collection of Ancient Glass, 28th April 2009, lot 13
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