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FLASK ON FOLDED STEMMED FOOT of Hans van Rossum
4th – 5th century AD | Israel, found in the hills of Beit Shemesh
Size↑18.7 cm | ø 5.8 cm | Weight 60 g
Technique: Free blown, thread applied; tooled
Description: Translucent green glass, elegant pear-shaped body, tapering into a long cylindrical neck flaring slightly at the mouth. Funnel shaped mouth with rounded rim, folded outward. Short folded stemmed foot with solid ball knob and small rest of pontil mark. A fine spiral thread wound around the top-part of the neck.
Condition: Intact, spectacular rainbow iridescence
Remarks: To form the neck the glass blower probably used a ribbed hand-held tool of which the traces are still visible.
Provenance: Jerusalem art market, Biblical Antiquities, Jerusalem 2004
Reference: Sotheby’s New York, auction 12 June 2001 lot 156 for an identical example
Verres Antiques et de l’Islam, Ancienne Collection de Monsieur D(emeulenaere) no. 441 (body decorated) , Ancient Glass, Charles Ede Ltd. July 2003 no. 49
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