Amphoriskos
4th-3rd century BCE
Description
Core-formed vessel of dark blue glass with trailed decoration in yellow and a color now largely missing (white?); turquoise trail around rim and small foot. Body of vessel fragmentary with lighter-colored plaster fills; colors darkened; rim chipped. No traces of handles survive.
Dimensions
9.5 × 4 cm (3 3/4 × 1 9/16 in.)
Provenance
Joseph Clark Hoppin, Boston, MA (by 1925), bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1925.
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