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THBRoman Glass Double Unguentarium w/ Trailing
Lot 52c
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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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By Artemis Gallery
Feb 21, 2019
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2019-02-21 10:00:00
2019-02-21 10:00:00
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Bidsquare : Exceptional Antiquities, Asian, Ethnographic
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An important one-day auction featuring museum-worthy examples of Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Near Eastern, Far East / Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Native American, Spanish Colonial, Russian, Fossils, Ancient Jewelry, Fine Art, so much more! Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
An important one-day auction featuring museum-worthy examples of Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Near Eastern, Far East / Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Native American, Spanish Colonial, Russian, Fossils, Ancient Jewelry, Fine Art, so much more! Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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- Lot Description
Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 2nd century CE. A stunning, free-blown double unguentarium formed from translucent, pale blue-green glass with a flat base and smooth pontil scar, a conjoined pair of cylindrical bodies, and a pair of lightly-flared rims. Thick trails of lime-green glass with interwoven strands of cobalt-blue and crimson glass form the angled shoulders, and an overlaid parabolic basket handle curves dramatically above the body. A single thin trail of vivid blue glass coils up from the bottom of the vessel and terminates just atop the rim. Layers of faint silvery iridescence finely accentuate the vessel's palette of vibrant colors. Custom museum-quality display stand included. Size: 3.125" W x 6.125" H (7.9 cm x 15.6 cm); 6.75" H (17.1 cm) on included custom stand.
Most scholars agree, Roman glass was of the highest quality - both aesthetically and technically - among the ancients. While glass making had been practiced for centuries, glass blowing was invented in the Roman-controlled Holy Land in the 1st century BCE. This innovative technology revolutionized the artform. We can appreciate such a wide variety of forms and shapes, because the medium of glass has unique physical properties that make for so many more possibilities which would eventually replace a wide variety of pottery and metal wares in the ancient world. Roman glassmakers reached incredible artistic heights with both free-blown vessels and mold blown forms and decorations and were traded far beyond the Roman Empire. Roman glass vessels have been found in Scandinavia, India, and in Han Dynasty tombs in China.
For a stylistically-similar example without a basket handle, please see the Dallas Museum of Art, object number 1967.12.15: https://collections.dma.org/artwork/4162528
Provenance: private East Coast, USA collection; ex-Artemis Gallery, 2015; ex-private Vero Beach, Florida, USA collection, acquired in Paris from an old French collection around 1980; ex-private S. K. Heninger collection, North Carolina, USA, acquired in the 1970s
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#143835Handle and one shoulder reattached with small chips and light adhesive residue along break lines. Minor nicks to base, rim, shoulders, and handle, with stable hairline fissures along rim and one shoulder, light weathering film, and minor encrustations within bodies. Light earthen deposits and great silver iridescence throughout.Condition
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