Lot 45A
Roman, Eastern Empire, late Imperial Period, ca. 4th to 5th century CE. A gorgeous jar of a bulbous form, free-blown from translucent glass of a vibrant amber-yellow hue. The vessel features a concave base with a rough pontil scar, a spherical body with a rounded shoulder, and a collared rim surrounding a wide mouth. Elegant trails of turquoise-hued glass are applied in a broad zigzagging register across the body, and trails of cobalt blue glass are pulled from the neck to the shoulder to form a pair of pulled handles with pinched lower tabs. Brilliant areas of silvery and rainbow-hued iridescence have formed across the jar and gracefully accentuate its honey-yellow color. Size: 4.125" W x 3.6" H (10.5 cm x 9.1 cm)
For a strikingly similar example, please see The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 30.115.5.
For a stylistically similar example with two zigzagging registers of blue glass trails, please see "Glasses of Antiquity." Fortuna Fine Arts, Ltd., New York, 2002, fig. 90.
Provenance: private East Coast, USA collection; ex-Stephen Shalom, collection, New York City, New York, USA, 1970s, purchased in Israel
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#154184
- Condition: Minor nicks and abrasions to base, body, handle tops, and rim, with light encrustations, light micro-bubbling within glass matrix, light encrustations, and light flaking to some iridescence, otherwise intact and near-choice. Pontil mark on underside of base. A pontil scar or mark indicates that a vessel was free-blown, while the absence of such a mark suggests that the work was either mold-blown or that the mark was intentionally smoothed away or wore away over time. Light earthen deposits as well as fantastic areas of silver and rainbow iridescence throughout.
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