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THBEarly Roman Glass Bowl w/ Fine Iridescence
Lot 52
About Seller
Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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By Artemis Gallery
Oct 25, 2018
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2018-10-25 11:00:00
2018-10-25 11:00:00
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Featuring Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Near Eastern, plus Asian art from Central and Far East. If you love the classics, this is the sale for you. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
Featuring Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Near Eastern, plus Asian art from Central and Far East. If you love the classics, this is the sale for you. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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- Lot Description
Roman, late Republic to early Imperial Period, ca. late 1st century BCE to 1st century CE. A gorgeous mold-formed hemispherical bowl made from translucent pale-green, near-colorless glass with a slight concave base, rounded walls, a deep interior cavity, and a thick rim. The interior of the vessel is lined with a pair of fine wheel-cut striations which add an elegant decorative flair. The rim and exterior exhibit a fire-polished surface, and the entire bowl is covered in thick layers of silvery and rainbow-hued iridescence. A sublime example of high-quality glasswork from the early Roman Empire! Size: 4.875" Diameter x 2.5" H (12.4 cm x 6.4 cm).
Pliny the Elder paid homage to the beauty of the many hues created in hand-blown glass, but pointed out that colorless translucent glass was the most coveted, "There is, furthermore, opaque white glass and others that reproduce the appearance of fluor-spar, blue sapphires or lapis lazuli, and, indeed, glass exists in any color . . . However, the most highly valued glass is colorless and transparent, as closely as possible resembling rock-crystal." (Pliny, Natural History XXXVI.198 from "Solid Liquid: Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Glass." Fortuna Fine Arts, Ltd., New York, 1999, p. 64)
For a stylistically-similar example, please see Grose, David Frederick. "The Toledo Museum of Art, Early Ancient Glass." New York, 1989, pp. 206-207, figs. 216-217.
Provenance: private East Coast, USA collection
All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back.
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#134732Surface wear and minor abrasions commensurate with age, minor nicks to rim and base, some stable hairline pressure fissures within glass matrix, and some micro-bubbling, otherwise intact and excellent. Light earthen deposits and wonderful silver and rainbow-iridescence throughout.Condition
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