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THBLot of 7 Egyptian Mosaic & Millefiori Glass Inlays
Lot 11
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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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Mar 12, 2020
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Ancient art from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, as well as Asian, Fossils, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal / Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, Russian Icons, Fine art, much more! Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
Ancient art from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, as well as Asian, Fossils, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal / Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, Russian Icons, Fine art, much more! Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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Egypt, Ptolemaic to early Romano-Egyptian period, ca. 332 BCE to first half of 1st century CE. A gorgeous group of petite opaque glass inlays - meant to be inserted into recesses in wooden coffins and limestone reliefs - composed of a myriad of polychrome hues. Four bifacial discs feature six-petaled flowers formed via the mosaic technique; long canes with one design were made and then sliced into sections like these. One millefiori fragment features a raised, curved ridge on one side that resembles a human ear, and the largest millefiori fragment boasts blue-and-yellow flower petals. The most striking piece is a blue-and-white falcon head with a red eye and beak, perhaps representing the falcon-headed sun god Ra or Qebehsenuef, one of the four Sons of Horus. A visually pleasing ensemble of ancient Egyptian glass! Size of largest (millefiori w/ flowers): 0.875" W x 1.625" H (2.2 cm x 4.1 cm)
For a few good examples of glass inlays from the same time period, please see: Stern, E. Marianne and Birgit Schlick-Nolte. "Early Glass of the Ancient World: 1600 B.C. - A.D. 50 | Ernesto Wolf Collection." Verlag Gerd Hatje, Germany, 1994, pp. 358-364, figs. 115-118.
Provenance: ex-Dr. Sid Port collection, California, USA, acquired in the 1970s; ex-Norman Blankman collection, New York, USA, acquired in the 1950s in Cairo, Egypt
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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#153321Two millefiori pieces and falcon head are fragments from larger glass compositions. Falcon head has repairs around peripheries with small chips and light adhesive residue along break lines. All items professionally cleaned and polished. Minor chips and pitting to three of four floral discs and all three fragments, light abrasions and fading to original pigment, and light encrustations. Great original detailing visible throughout.Condition
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