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GLASS AMPHORISQUE
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146
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GLASS AMPHORISQUE
See original version (French)
Estimate €1,000 - €2,000
Voluntary lot
Description
GLASS AMPHORISQUE
Eastern Mediterranean, 1st–2nd century AD
A translucent green blown-glass amphorisk with a spherical body engraved with two concentric lines using a grinding wheel, a cylindrical neck, and an outward-curving rim surmounting handles attached to the shoulder.
Height: 16 cm
Provenance: Former collection of Franziska Gassner, Germany, acquired in the 1950s
Christie’s, London, 25 October 2006: lot 41 (ill.)
Charles Ede Limited, London
Christian Levett Collection, Mougins Museum of Classical Art, acquired in 2009
Exhibitions: Mougins Museum of Classical Art (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011–August 2023 (Inv. No. MMoCA292)
Bibliography: Christie’s, Antiquities, London, 25 October 2006, lot 41
M. Eiland, ‘Materials and Manufacture’ in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 171, fig. 30
An Eastern Mediterranean glass amphoriskos,
1st–2nd century AD
See original version (French)
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