A Dark Blue Core-formed Glass Aryballos, late 6th/5th Century B.C.

with globular body, short neck with flaring mouth, and twin opaque yellow suspension handles trailing onto the shoulders, the body decorated with opaque yellow and turquoise zigzag thread, encircling bands above and below, the rim outlined with yellow.

acquired in London in 1978

Kokusai Bijutsu, Ltd., Tokyo, 6th Exhibition Catalogue, 1978, no. 11, illus.

several minor stress cracks above base, surface slightly worn
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Cf. Oppenländer Collection, no. 143, Ernesto Wolf Collection, no. 48, Toledo, Early Ancient Glass, p. 112, fig. 62, and Sotheby's, New York, December 9th, 2003, no. 107.