Description:

**Originally Listed At $400**

Ancient Near East / Holy Land, early Byzantine Empire, ca. 5th to 7th century CE. A lovely mold-formed glass flask, of a petite form shaped from gorgeous aubergine-hued glass, with a lightly-concave base, a spherical body with a slightly-indented shoulder, a funnel mouth, and an in-folded rim. The body is pattern-molded with dozens of shallow dimples in a netting-style presentation which imbues the vessel with a delicate, elegant presentation, and thick areas of silvery and rainbow-hued iridescence nicely complement the flask's eggplant color. Size: 2.25" W x 3.45" H (5.7 cm x 8.8 cm)

Provenance: The Dere Family Collection, New York, USA, assembled 1970's-2000's; ex-S.K. Heninger Collection, North Carolina, USA, acquired in 1970's

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#139765

  • Condition: Neck may have been repaired but if so it is extremely well done and difficult to discern. The vessel was mold made so there is no pontil. A pontil scar or mark indicates that a vessel was free-blown, while the absence of such a mark suggests that the work was either mold-blown or that the mark was intentionally smoothed away or wore away over time. Pretty iridescence on surface.

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