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Lot Essay
PUBLISHED:
Exhibition catalogue, Köstlichkeiten aus Kairo!, Antikensmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig und Museum August Kestner Hannover, 2008, p. 73, no. 22.
The griffin is a mythological creature with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle, symbol of divine majesty and power, although this example combines the forepart of a lion and the wings and tail of an eagle, which is influenced by the Persian presence in Egypt during Dynasty XXVII and XXXI in the 6th and 4th century B.C. For other examples, cf. E. M. Stern and B. Schlick-Nolte, Early Glass of the Ancient World, 1600 B.C.-A.D. 50, Ernesto Wolf Collection, Ostfildern, 1994, no. 137.; see also a pair of griffin heads from the Sangiorgi collection; Christie's New York, 3 June 1999, lot 88.
Exhibition catalogue, Köstlichkeiten aus Kairo!, Antikensmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig und Museum August Kestner Hannover, 2008, p. 73, no. 22.
The griffin is a mythological creature with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle, symbol of divine majesty and power, although this example combines the forepart of a lion and the wings and tail of an eagle, which is influenced by the Persian presence in Egypt during Dynasty XXVII and XXXI in the 6th and 4th century B.C. For other examples, cf. E. M. Stern and B. Schlick-Nolte, Early Glass of the Ancient World, 1600 B.C.-A.D. 50, Ernesto Wolf Collection, Ostfildern, 1994, no. 137.; see also a pair of griffin heads from the Sangiorgi collection; Christie's New York, 3 June 1999, lot 88.