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THBRoman Glass Jug w/ Trailed Decorations
Lot 48b
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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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2020-07-30 10:00:00
2020-07-30 10:00:00
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Ancient art from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, as well as Asian, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal / Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, Russian Icons, Fine art, much more! All categories, all price ranges... all legally acquired and guaranteed to be as described or your money back. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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- Lot Description
Roman, late Imperial Period, ca. 4th to mid-5th century CE. An attractive jug of a tall form that is free-blown from translucent glass of a pale blue-green hue. The broad vessel has a concave base with a rough pontil scar, a spherical body surmounted by a wide, cylindrical neck, and a rounded, in-folded lip. A trail of translucent green-yellow glass is first applied to the shoulder, pulled up, and connected to the side of the rim, and a thick trail of turquoise glass forms a wavy collar that encircles the neck. The body exhibits six petite pinched tabs with applied trails of vibrant blue-green glass arching above, drooping below, and draped thinly across each tab. Lovely silvery iridescence covers the entire jug and elegantly accentuates its gentle colors. Size: 3.7" W x 5.75" H (9.4 cm x 14.6 cm)
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.
Provenance: private East Coast, USA collection; ex-Stephen Shalom, collection, New York City, New York, USA, 1970s, purchased in Israel
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#154186Minor abrasions and nicks to base, applied glass trails, handle and rim, with a couple of stable hairline fissures stemming from rim, light encrustations, micro-bubbling within glass matrix, and some weathering film, otherwise intact and excellent. Nice earthen deposits as well as great silver iridescence throughout.Condition
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