A Byzantine Glass Flask

Circa 5th-7th Century A.D.

Height 4 3/4 inches (12.07 cm).

Provenance:

Ernest and Marthe Kofler-Truniger. Lucerne, Switzerland.

Christie's, London, Ancient Class: Formerly the Kofler-Truniger Collection, 5-6 March 1985, Lot 14.

Royal Athena Galleries, New York, 1985 (Art of the Ancient World, Vol. IV, no. 376).

M.S. Rau, Inc., New Orleans.

Dr. Ridgely Lange, Michigan, acquired from the above, 7 April 1986.

Exhibited:

Switzerland, Lucerne, Kunstmuseum, 3000 Jahre Glaskunst: Von der Antike bis zum Jugendstil, 19 July-13 Sept 1981.

Published:

Beat Rutti, 3000 Jahre Glaskunst: Von der Antike bis zum Jugendstil, Kunstmuseum Lucerne (Switzerland 1981), no. 452.

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