Lot Essay
Cf. D. F. Grose, Early Ancient Glass, The Toledo Museum of Art, 1989, p. 192, fig. 106 and p. 202, no. 204; and S. M. Goldstein, op. cit., p. 181, pl. 24, no. 475 for similar.
2ND/MID-1ST CENTURY B.C.
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A Hellenistic mosaic glass dish
2nd/mid-1st Century B.C.
The circular bowl with wide everted translucent amber rim spirally wound with opaque white thread, the shallow bowl formed from mainly translucent aubergine and amber canes decorated with opaque white star pattern, with opaque light blue, turquoise and greenish-yellow short ribbons, slight iridescence, repaired
4 7/8 in. (12.3 cm.) diam.
2nd/mid-1st Century B.C.
The circular bowl with wide everted translucent amber rim spirally wound with opaque white thread, the shallow bowl formed from mainly translucent aubergine and amber canes decorated with opaque white star pattern, with opaque light blue, turquoise and greenish-yellow short ribbons, slight iridescence, repaired
4 7/8 in. (12.3 cm.) diam.