Roman bowl of colourful ribbon glass
€33,000
available
Object number
AR3413
| Object: |
Roman bowl made of colourful ribbon glass
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| Material: |
Opaque glass in blue, red, yellow, green and white.
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| Period: |
Early 1st century AD. Early Roman Imperial period. |
| Description: |
Colourful Roman glass bowl of flat, circular shape. The inner part is made of beautiful, polychrome glass stripes. They are wavy and form a nice overall pattern. The outer rim is blue with a corona of white stripes. The bowl was made in mosaic glass technique. D. F. Grose is assuming the place of manufacturing to be in Italy, Germany or the Balkans (see literature list below). It is truely a work of art and a showpiece for the glass production in the Roman core region during the Early Imperial period. |
| Dimensions: |
89mm diameter. 17mm to 21mm height.
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| Condition: |
Professionally restored from fragments. The original substance is almost completely preserved, only a small part of the rim has been added. Some parts show a nice, iridescent patina. Fantastic overall condition. Sticker on the underside with print "Nico F. Bijnsdorp Private Collection" and inscription of the collection number "308".
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| Provenance: |
Acquired by us in 2022 on the british art market. Previously in the dutch private collection of Nico F. Bijnsdorp, collection no. NFB 308. Exported in 2022 from the Netherlands with export permit. Acquired into the Bijnsdorp colleciton on 8 June 2015 from the british private collection of David G. and Jennifer S. Giles. The receipt is available as a copy. Acquired into the Giles collection in April 2008 from the british art gallery Barakat. Into the stock of Barakat from the auction Christie's New York "Antiquities" 9 December 1999, lot 464. Previously in an anonymous colleciton. The piece was with Ueada Gallery in Japan in 1983.
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| Publications: |
Gallery Ueda, Ancient Art II (Tokyo, 1983), no. 14. Auction catalogue Christie's New York "Antiquities" 9 December 1999, lot 464. |
| References: |
Cf. S. M. Goldstein, Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass (1979), p. 197, no. 534. Cf. K. Goethert-Polaschek, Katalog der roemischen Glaeser des rheinischen Landesmuseums Trier (1977), pp. 15-16, pl. 1, nos. 4 to 6. |
| Literature: |
For the manufacturing technique see D. F. Grose, Early Ancient Glass (Toledo Museum of Art, 1989), pp. 220, 252, 293-294, no. 359.
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| Authenticity: |
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