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THBPublished Late Roman Glass Pilgrim's Flask
Lot 61
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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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**Originally Listed At $1200**
Roman, late Imperial Period, ca. 3rd to 4th century CE. A beautiful pilgrim's flask free-blown from nearly translucent, light blue glass to present a lentoid body with a slender, elongated neck, and a flared and folded rim. Interestingly, nearly colorless glass, like this example, was highly sought after in Ancient Rome as it was believed to resemble rock crystal. It was so treasured that Pliny the Elder writes of such glass in his "Natural History," stating, "the most highly valued glass is colorless and transparent…" Note the gorgeous flakes of purple and blue iridescence that illuminate; stunning souvenirs from its epic journey through space and time! Size: 3.6" W x 6.6" H (9.1 cm x 16.8 cm); 7.3" H (18.5 cm) on included custom stand.
Such vessels were certainly utilitarian; however, examples like this one displayed immense artistry and technique. The following quote poetically describes the artistic process of creating free-blown glass in ancient Rome, "First he heated the very point of the iron, then snatched from nearby a lump of bright glass and placed it skillfully within the hollow furnace. And the crystal as it tasted the heat of the fire was softened by the strokes of Hephaestus like . . .he blew in from his mouth a quick breath . . . .like a man essaying the most delightful art of the flute. The glass received the force of his breath and became swollen out around itself like a sphere before it. It would receive another onslaught of the divine breath, for often swinging it like an ox-herd his crook he would breath into . . ." ( P. Oxy. 50.3536, a third century poem on glass blowing - R.A. Coles, Oxyrhynchus Papyri 50 (1983).
Exhibited in "Ancient Glass: Selections from the Richard Brockway Collection" at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University, Salem from March 10 to May 19, 2007 and "Glass of the Ancient World" at the Vero Beach Museum of Art, Florida from October 11 to December 28, 2008.
Provenance: private Vero Beach, Florida, USA collection, acquired before 2003
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#177386Stable hairline fissure to rim, but otherwise intact and excellent with flakes of iridescence and weathering film to interior.Condition
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