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LOT 0080
Hellenistic Pale Green Glass Bowl
CIRCA MID 2ND-EARLY 1ST CENTURY B.C.
6 1/8 in. (375 grams, 15.7 cm).
Conical bowl with three horizontal grooves cut to the inner rim, a pair of concentric circles to the underside; remains of iridescence.
ProvenanceDr Jutaro Kawabe, Nagoya, Japan, his collection formed in the 1960s-1970s.
with Hoshigaoka Gallery until the late 1990s.
Private collection, London, UK.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12828-241335.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Cf. a deep bowl in the Hermitage Collection, St Petersburg, likewise formed from semi-translucent greenish glass, with three deep wheel-cut grooves on the interior below the rim and further concentric polished lines encircling the exterior near the base in Kunina, N., Ancient Glass in the Hermitage Collection, St Petersburg, 1997, p.257, no. 50; for a colourless example, see The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 81.10.243. and 57.11.6.
FootnotesKunina notes that this form imitates metallic prototypes of the late Hellenistic period.
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LOT 0080
Hellenistic Pale Green Glass Bowl
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000€4,640 - 6,960 (for guidance only)$5,400 - 8,100 (for guidance only)
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