Lot 122
122
A GREEK YELLOW MOSAIC GLASS FOOTED BOWL
A GREEK YELLOW MOSAIC GLASS FOOTED BOWL
A GREEK YELLOW MOSAIC GLASS FOOTED BOWL
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This lot is offered without reserve. ANCIENT GLASS FROM THE COLLECTION OF JACK AND JANE WEPRIN
A GREEK YELLOW MOSAIC GLASS FOOTED BOWL

LATE HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA EARLY 1ST CENTURY B.C.

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A GREEK YELLOW MOSAIC GLASS FOOTED BOWL
LATE HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA EARLY 1ST CENTURY B.C.
3 1⁄4 in. (8.2 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Karl Löffler, Cologne, acquired by 1973.
The Property of the Late Herr Karl Löffler, Cologne; Ancient Glass, Sotheby's, London, 20 November 1987, lot 30.
Jack (1930-1996) and Jane (1936-2021) Weprin, New York, acquired from the above; thence by descent to the current owner.
Literature
A.B. Follmann, et al., Antiken aus rheinischem Privatbesitz, Cologne, 1973, p. 196, no. 313, pl. 141.
P. La Baume and J. W. Salomonson, Römische Kleinkunst: Sammlung Karl Löffler, Cologne, 1976, p. 29, no. 29, pl. II.
Exhibited
Bonn, Landesmuseum, Antiken aus rheinischem Privatbesitz, 9 November 1973-13 January 1974.
Cologne, Römisch-Germanisches Museum, Römische Kleinkunst: Sammlung Karl Löffler, 1976; on loan 1982-1986.
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Lot Essay

This hemispherical bowl on a high ring base was assembled primarily from slices of bars formed of opaque yellow with white spirals, centered by opaque white. The rim is finished with a reticella coil of dark red twisted with opaque white, while the foot is of darker amber with swirls of opaque white. Mosaic bowls of similar shape were found in the shipwreck off the island of Antikythera, providing a secure date for the type, circa 70-60 B.C. For another similar example and full discussion of the type see no. 86 in E.M. Stern and B. Schlick-Nolte, Early Glass of the Ancient World, 1600 B.C.-A.D. 50.

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