THREE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CORE-FORMED GLASS VESSELS

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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF NAHUM GOLDMANN Nahum Goldmann (July 10, 1895-August 29, 1982) was a prominent leader of the Zionist movement as well as the founder and longtime President of the World Jewish Congress. He was also a collector of Mediterranean glass. Born at the end of the 19th century in Belarus, he moved to Germany at the age of six and went on to study Law, Philosophy and History. Having visited Palestine in 1913, Goldmann became an active supporter of Israel from an early age. His political activity attracted the attention of the growing Nazi party, and in 1934 he was stripped of his German citizenship. At this time, Goldmann had already fled Germany and was living in Palestine. He became an American citizen in 1940. He was a co-founder of the World Jewish Congress in 1936 and subsequently chairman of the World Zionist Organization. A champion of Jewish causes for the rest of his life, Goldmann divided his time between many of the world’s major cities including New York, Paris and Jerusalem, the latter of which housed his glass collection, part of which is now in the permanent collection of the Israel Museum.

THREE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CORE-FORMED GLASS VESSELS

CIRCA 6TH-4TH CENTURY B.C.

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THREE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CORE-FORMED GLASS VESSELS
CIRCA 6TH-4TH CENTURY B.C.
Including two cobalt blue aryballoi, globular in form with a cylindrical neck and inward-sloping disk rim, applied opaque yellow and turquoise threads wound spirally on the body, marvered and tooled into a zigzag pattern in the middle of the body, with a yellow thread on the rim and twin cobalt blue ring handles with knobbed tails; and an iridescent pale blue alabastron, the body wound with opaque white threads, marvered and tooled into a zigzag pattern, with twin loop handles with knobbed tails
Tallest: 3 2/3 in (9.3 cm.) high

Provenance

Nahum Goldmann (1894-1982), acquired in Jerusalem in the early 1960s; thence by descent and brought to the U.S. in 1982.

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