Description:

Ancient Greece, late Hellenistic Period, ca. 2nd to 1st century BCE. A beautiful mold-formed glass bowl with thick, translucent glass of a honey-yellow amber hue. The mastoid vessel has a conical body with a rounded base and a dense rim, a trio of concentric, wheel-cut grooves decorating the interior of the vessel, and a pair of shallow grooves surrounding the base. Dense areas of fiery rainbow-hued iridescence have formed across the composition and nicely accentuate its golden-yellow color. Lucite display stand for photography purposes only. Size: 5.7" Diameter x 3.375" H (14.5 cm x 8.6 cm)

For a stylistically similar example, please see The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 57.11.6.

For another stylistically similar example, please see: Stern, E. Marianne and Birgit Schlick-Nolte. "Early Glass of the Ancient World: 1600 B.C. - A.D. 50 | Ernesto Wolf Collection." Verlag Gerd Hatje, Germany, 1994, pp. 292-293, no. 83.

Provenance: East Coast collection, New York Gallery, New York City, New York, USA, acquired before 2010

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#154198

  • Condition: Minor nicks and abrasions to base, walls, and rim, with pitting commensurate with age, light encrustations, and micro-bubbling within glass matrix, otherwise intact and excellent. Nice earthen deposits and stunning rainbow iridescence throughout.

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