PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 3RD-1ST CENTURY B.C.

Details

AN EGYPTIAN MOSAIC GLASS COSTUME INLAY FRAGMENT
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 3RD-1ST CENTURY B.C.
From the lower half of a royal figure, decorated with horizontal bands of petals, lotus flowers and circles, with a vertical band of green and yellow circles in blue ground, in yellow matrix
1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm.) high

Provenance

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

Exhibited

Antikensmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig und Museum August Kestner Hannover, Köstlichkeiten aus Kairo!, 2008, no. 33a.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Exhibition catalogue, Köstlichkeiten aus Kairo!, Antikensmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig und Museum August Kestner Hannover, 2008, p. 83, no. 33a.

See two identical fragments in 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. 362-3, no. 117, which the authors believe came from one of the four mummified Sons of Horus. However, cf royal figure wearing a long garment in S. Walker and P. Higgs, Cleopatra of Egypt, From History to Myth, London, 2001, p. 76, no. 56.
We are grateful to Julia Jarrett for the drawing.

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