A ROMAN GLASS BOWL

CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.

Details

A ROMAN GLASS BOWL
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Translucent pale blue-green in color, mold blown, with three concentric ridges on the concave underside, the flaring rim cracked off, the globular body with a central band of upturned and downturned palmettes, arranged in four sets of two and one set of three, interspersed with stars, voluted tendrils between them, a band of vertical ribs on the shoulders, and left curving gadroons rising up from the base
3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Norbert Schimmel (1904-1990), New York.
Norbert Schimmel Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 16 December 1992, lot 73.

Lot Essay

The shape, fine quality of the molded ornament, and the color all find close parallels with several bowls signed by the master Roman glassmaker, Ennion, and another, of similar shape and quality, of yellow-green glass, signed by his pupil Aristeas. While the Schimmel bowl is unsigned, it surely can be attributed to Ennion's workshop. For the bowls signed by Ennion, see nos. 23-24 and for the bowl by Aristeas see no. 28 in C.S. Lightfoot, Ennion: Master of Roman Glass.

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