Two Cobalt Blue Core-formed Glass Aryballoi, circa late 6th/5th Century B.C.

each with ribbed globular body, looped and trailed handles, and flaring mouth, one with the translucent matrix decorated with a broad zigzag band in opaque yellow and turquoise, a spiral thread below, a yellow collar on the rim, the other with the translucent matrix decorated with a wide zigzag band in opaque turquoise and yellow, spiral thread below and above, a turquoise collar on the rim.

acquired in London in 1979, for the first

acquired in London in the late 1970s/early 1980s, for the second

both aryballoi intact, the one on the left somewhat weathered and pitted, a minor superficial hair-line crack, the one on the right good and as shown.
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