Search Price Results
Wish

LOT 0041

Roman Holyland Glass Bowl Squat Form

[ translate ]

Roman, Eastern Empire, Holy Land, Imperial Period, ca. 2nd to 3rd century CE. A nicely preserved bowl of a squat form, free-blown from semi-translucent glass of an attractive blue-green hue. The vessel has a slightly concave base with a smooth pontil scar, thick walls, and a deep basin surrounded by a splayed rim. Fine layers of silvery and rainbow-hued iridescence have developed across the interior and exterior surfaces. Size: 3.8" W x 2.25" H (9.7 cm x 5.7 cm)

Provenance: private Florida, USA collection, purchased at the Archaeological Center auction, Tel Aviv, Israel (April 8, 1993, lot 116); ex-Israeli politician David Hacohen collection, Israel

All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back.

A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids.

We ship worldwide to most countries and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience.

#151612
Condition Report: Minor abrasions to base, walls, rim, and basin surfaces, with micro-bubbling within glass matrix, and light weathering and encrustations, otherwise intact and very good. Nice earthen deposits as well as great silver and rainbow iridescence throughout. Old inventory number written in black ink beneath rim exterior, and old inventory number blacked out beneath base.

[ translate ]

View it on
Estimate
Unlock
Time, Location
02 Apr 2020
USA, Louisville, CO
Auction House
Unlock

[ translate ]

Roman, Eastern Empire, Holy Land, Imperial Period, ca. 2nd to 3rd century CE. A nicely preserved bowl of a squat form, free-blown from semi-translucent glass of an attractive blue-green hue. The vessel has a slightly concave base with a smooth pontil scar, thick walls, and a deep basin surrounded by a splayed rim. Fine layers of silvery and rainbow-hued iridescence have developed across the interior and exterior surfaces. Size: 3.8" W x 2.25" H (9.7 cm x 5.7 cm)

Provenance: private Florida, USA collection, purchased at the Archaeological Center auction, Tel Aviv, Israel (April 8, 1993, lot 116); ex-Israeli politician David Hacohen collection, Israel

All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back.

A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids.

We ship worldwide to most countries and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience.

#151612
Condition Report: Minor abrasions to base, walls, rim, and basin surfaces, with micro-bubbling within glass matrix, and light weathering and encrustations, otherwise intact and very good. Nice earthen deposits as well as great silver and rainbow iridescence throughout. Old inventory number written in black ink beneath rim exterior, and old inventory number blacked out beneath base.

[ translate ]
Estimate
Unlock
Time, Location
02 Apr 2020
USA, Louisville, CO
Auction House
Unlock
View it on