Live Auction 2364Antiquities Including Property from The Collection of Max Palevsky
A GREEK GLASS BOWL
Lot 67

A GREEK GLASS BOWL

HELLENISTIC PERIOD, SYRO-PALESTINIAN, CIRCA MID 2ND-EARLY 1ST CENTURY B.C.

Closed9 December 2010

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A GREEK GLASS BOWL
HELLENISTIC PERIOD, SYRO-PALESTINIAN, CIRCA MID 2ND-EARLY 1ST CENTURY B.C.
Amber in color, sagged, conical in form, the rim rounded, the straight sides tapering toward the convex base, with a wheel-cut groove on the exterior below the rim, and two grooves lower on the body framing a band roughly etched on the surface, another groove on the interior below the rim
4 in. (10.2 cm.) high

Norton Collection of Ancient Glass, Canada, acquired in the 1960s.
Thence by descent to a Canadian Private Collection.

Specialist note

For similar examples in the Ernesto Wolf Collection and a study of the type see nos. 79 and 82, p. 284-285 and p. 290-291 in Stern and Schlick-Nolte, Early Glass of the Ancient World, 1600 BC-AD 50.