Lot 25C
Greece, late Hellenistic Period, ca. 2nd to 1st century BCE. A mold-formed glass bowl of an elegant form, comprised of thick, translucent, yellow-green glass with a wheel-polished interior and a fire-polished exterior. A pair of wheel-cut grooves decorates the upper half of the interior, and three thinly-abraded circular bands adorn the bottom of the exterior. Thick areas of fiery rainbow iridescence accent the olive-colored glass in ruby, citrine, emerald, sapphire, and amethyst hues. Size: 5.25" W x 3" H (13.3 cm x 7.6 cm).
Published in "Solid Liquid: Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Glass." Fortuna Fine Arts, Ltd., New York, 1999, p. 31, fig. 34.
For a stylistically-similar example, please see: Stern, E. Marianne and Birgit Schlick-Nolte. "Early Glass of the Ancient World, 1600 B.C. -A.D. 50: The Ernesto Wolf Collection." Ostfildern, Germany, 1994, pp. 286-287, fig. 80.
For some additional stylistically-similar examples, please see: Grose, David Frederick. "The Toledo Museum of Art, Early Ancient Glass." New York, 1989, pp. 204-205, figs. 212-214.
Provenance: private East Coast, USA collection
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- Condition: Minor nicks to rim and base, with fading to some wheel-cut and abraded decorations, and several stable pressure fissures, otherwise intact and excellent. Nice earthen deposits and fabulous rainbow iridescence throughout. Old inventory label within interior.
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