Hellenistic Amber Glass Bowl

3rd-1st century BC. An amber-coloured hemispherical glass bowl with circumferential rotary grinding marks on the interior, shallow kick-up to base; small patches of lustre to body. See The Corning Museum of Glass, accession number 79.1.40, for comparable; see The Metropolitan Museum, accession numbers 81.10.37, 81.10.129 and 81.10.130, for comparable. 102 grams, 12cm (4 3/4"). Property of a London gentleman; before that in the private collection of a Kensington collector; previously in the collection of Mrs Petra Schamelman, Breitenbach, Germany; acquired from the collection of Fernand Adda, formed in the 1920s; this lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate number no.10859-178322. Hemispherical bowls were popular in the Late Hellenistic period. Glass was not the only media in which they were produced, as evidenced by the survival of specimens crafted in metal and ceramic.
Condition Report: Very fine condition.