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THBStunning Roman Glass Lotus Bud Beaker
Lot 38b
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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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Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st century CE. An elegant, translucent, pale blue-green glass lotus bud beaker with a mold-formed body presenting six rows of raised lotus buds interspersed with round bosses, an gently-flaring profile, a base with concentric circles in relief, and a round rim with a fine wheel-cut line below. During the 1st century CE, lotus bud beakers were extremely popular and were created by using a series of different molds. This particular style, featuring ample lotus buds interspersed with bosses, was created by using one of the most elaborate molds. Covered in ample silver and rainbow-hued iridescence, this is a superb example of this rare style! Size: 2.5" W x 4.75" H (6.4 cm x 12.1 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.
For a stylistically-similar example, please see the Corning Museum of Glass, accession number 79.1.96: https://www.cmog.org/artwork/knobbed-or-lotus-bud-beaker-0
A very similar example with one fewer rows of lotus buds hammered for GBP 11,250 ($14,589) at Bonhams, London, New Bond Street Antiquities auction (July 6, 2016, lot 63): https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/23364/lot/63/
Provenance: private East Coast, USA collection; ex-Stephen Shalom collection, New York, USA, acquired in the 1970s
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#143849Minor nicks and abrasions to rim, body, and base, with light weathering film and encrustations, otherwise intact and excellent. Nice earthen deposits as well as fabulous silver and rainbow iridescence throughout.Condition
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