Egyptian Turquoise Glass Face Inlay

PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 3RD-1ST CENTURY BC

1 1/2" (79 grams total, 40mm).

A turquoise glass inlay of a profile head with raised eyebrow and eye-line, neat facial detailing with curved slot beside the ear; mounted on a custom-made stand.

Provenance

From a UK collection; previously sold Bonhams, London, 15th October 2008, lot 29 (£8,000); formerly acquired in Germany in the 1960s; accompanied by a copy of a positive scientific analysis from Prof Julian Henderson of Keble College, Oxford, dated 25 October 2017; and the relevant Bonhams catalogue pages.

Literature

Cf. Goldstein, S., Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in the Corning museum of Glass, New York, 1979, pp.242-243, no.702.

CONDITION

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LOT 0006

Egyptian Turquoise Glass Face Inlay

Sold for (Inc. bp): £5,000

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