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1613224471
Description
Core-formed glass amphoriskos.
Opaque light blue and opaque orange trails, opaque dark brown (or very dark green) body and handles.
Broad, inward-sloping rim-disc. Short, cylindrical neck, joining nearly horizontal shoulder in sharp, angular bend; ovoid body, ending in base-knob. Two vertical handles, round or oval in section dropped on shoulder, drawn up and folded inward to junction of rim and neck, upper ends attached to middle of neck. Upper ends of handles in curled back with depressions in their centres facing opposite ways. Base-knob misshapen.
Unmarvered orange trail round edge of lip. Another, marvered, dropped on neck and wound down, first in two straight revolutions, then, mingling with a light blue trail, in narrow zigzag panel; below, and partially overlapping, this panel a threefold orange trail with overlapping ends.
Formed on a core; rim-disc, handles and base-knob drawn on and tooled; trails drawn on, marvered (except on lip) and combed.
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