Lot Essay
Cf. Kofler, Christie's, 5 and 6 March 1985, lot 257
SHRINE AND FURNITURE INLAYS
SKY AND STARS
MONOCHROME AND MOSAIC GLASS TECHNIQUE
MAINLY 3RD-1ST CENTURY B.C.
FRIEZE OF SKY AND STARS, traces of opaque white weathered yellow star inlays, in opaque cobalt blue rectangle - 4.5 x 1.5cm., 0.5cm. thick; another similar, inlays missing - 5.2 x 1.3cm., 0.4cm. thick, 6th-2nd Century B.C.; and another, inlay red centred white stars, in translucent blue square matrix, on white and colourless 'sandwich' base - 1.55 x 0.75cm., 0.5cm. thick, 3rd-1st Century B.C. (3)
Details
FRIEZE OF SKY AND STARS, traces of opaque white weathered yellow star inlays, in opaque cobalt blue rectangle - 4.5 x 1.5cm., 0.5cm. thick; another similar, inlays missing - 5.2 x 1.3cm., 0.4cm. thick, 6th-2nd Century B.C.; and another, inlay red centred white stars, in translucent blue square matrix, on white and colourless 'sandwich' base - 1.55 x 0.75cm., 0.5cm. thick, 3rd-1st Century B.C. (3)