Lot 7
7
FUSED MOSAIC AND OPAQUE GLASS INLAYS
EIGHT FLORAL FRAGMENTS OF ARCHITECTURAL PLAQUES, mosaic glass technique, green, blue, yellow, white and red, showing green lotus pods, yellow, white and red cruciform flowers with clover-like petals, red poppies, white hexagonal star-like flowers with seven-dotted red centres and yellow eight-berried ivy flowers(?), 1st Century B.C./A.D. 3¼in. (8.3cm.) high max., 0.3cm. thick (8)

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EIGHT FLORAL FRAGMENTS OF ARCHITECTURAL PLAQUES, mosaic glass technique, green, blue, yellow, white and red, showing green lotus pods, yellow, white and red cruciform flowers with clover-like petals, red poppies, white hexagonal star-like flowers with seven-dotted red centres and yellow eight-berried ivy flowers(?), 1st Century B.C./A.D. 3¼in. (8.3cm.) high max., 0.3cm. thick (8)

Lot Essay

Cf. Sammlung E. and M. Kofler-Truniger, Luzern, Kunsthaus Zürich, J, Juni bis 3, August 1964, Basel, 1964, no. 234; H. W. Müller, Agyptische Kunstwerke, Kleinfunde und Glas in der Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, Luzern, Berlin, 1964, A234 a-g, p, r, u-x, pl. opp. pp. 81 and 88 and black and white pl.; Le Don du Nil, Art Egyptien dans les Collections Suisses, Zürich, Bern, Luzern, Genève, 1978, nos. 358-363; 3,000 Jahre Glaskunst, Kunstmuseum, Luzern, 19 July-13 September 1981, no. 35; Christie's, London, Ancient Glass: formerly the Kofler-Truniger Collection, 5-6 March 1985, lots 221-222

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