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Byzantine Masterpieces : Byzantine Period Mold-Blown Light Honey Color Glass Jug
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Byzantine Period Mold-Blown Light Honey Color Glass Jug - GF.0081
Origin: Beit Fajar, Israel
Circa: 400
AD
to 600
AD
Catalogue: V1
Collection: Byzantine Art
Medium: Glass
Location: UAE
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Extremely fine Byzantine mold-blown light
honey-color glass jug of hexagonal shape, with
trailed handle, cylindrical neck and snake thread
decoration. A six-pointed star adorns the base
which also bears a pontil mark. The six side
panels are decorated with lozenge patterns,
impressed lattice patterns and palmette motifs.
The superb quality of this jug suggests it was
blown into a virgin mold.
Whose hands held this vase when it was new, as
ours can hold it still? Did that person have
dreams, passions and goals so very different
from our own? The passage of centuries has
changed so much since then, and though the jug
has grown lovelier--touched gently by the hand
of time--much else has vanished. At the very
least, however, we share with that ancient life an
appreciation for the vessel's beauty.
- (GF.0081)
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