Eastern mediterranean core formed glass trefoil oinochoe

With piriform body on convex base, short cylindrical neck, trefoil rim and thin vertical handle, applied opaque yellow and turquoise marvered threads wound spirally and tooled into a zigzag pattern, two yellow bands below, applied yellow trail around the rim

Period
Possibly Rhodian, late 6th-5th century B.C.
Dimension
H. 8.3 cm (3 17⁄64 in)

Kofler-Truniger collection, Lucerne
Private collection, Switzerland, acquired from the above prior to 1984

Un'arte per la bellezza Cosmesi e salute nei secoli, Lugano 1984, 53 no. 162
Archeologia Viva, III, no. 6, June 1984, 48
"Mementoes of the Past", Style of Life Made in Italy, Spring 1986, vol. IV, no. 10

Lugano, Villa Malpensata, Un'arte per la bellezza Cosmesi e salute nei secoli, 2 May-17 June 1984

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