TWO EGYPTIAN GLASS INLAYS AND AN AMULET

PTOLEMAIC-ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.

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TWO EGYPTIAN GLASS INLAYS AND AN AMULET
PTOLEMAIC-ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
Including a seated figure, arms raised above knee and elegant elongated foot; a turquoise frog amulet; and a papyrus flower, with red, yellow and green sepals
1¼ in. (3.2 cm.) high max. (3)

Provenance

The Groppi Collection, Switzerland; acquired in the 1920s-1940s.

Exhibited

Lot Essay

For a similar crouching body inlay, see E. M. Stern and B. Schlick-Nolte, Early Glass of the Ancient World, 1600 B.C.-A.D. 50, Ernesto Wolf Collection, Ostfildern, 1994, p. 358, no. 115; and for a similar frog amulet, see V. Arveiller-Dulong and M.-D. Nenna, Les verres antiques du Musée du Louvre, Vol. III, Paris, 2011, p. 279, no. 419.

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