A Roman pale green glass grape flask Circa 3rd Century A.D.With funnel mouth, the cylindrical neck with tooled flange at the shoulder, the body blown into a three-part mould with ten rows of stylised grape pattern, 12.8cm high Footnotes:Provenance: The Nimbus Collection of Ancient Glass.Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 12 June 1997, lot 193. The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 053), acquired from the above sale.Such flasks are found in green and purple glass intended to emulate the colour of grapes. For a discussion of the stylised grape bottle classifications, cf. E. Marianne Stern, The Toledo Museum of Art, Roman Mold-blown Glass,(Toledo, 1995), p.191. According to Stern, these bottles were blown into a three-part mould, with two vertical moulds for the body and a disc-shaped mould for the base.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
We found 641361 price guide item(s) matching your search
There are 641361 lots that match your search criteria. Subscribe now to get instant access to the full price guide service.
Click here to subscribe- List
- Grid
-
641361 item(s)/page
A Roman colourless glass jug with biconical stopper Circa 3rd-4th Century A.D.The globular body with concave base and dimpled sides, a thread woven around the neck and trefoil lipped mouth, an applied strap-handle, jug 11cm high, stopper 5.2cm longFootnotes:Provenance:With Sasson Ancient Art, Jerusalem, 2011.The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 263), acquired from the above on the 30 March 2011.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Cycladic marble pair of legs Late Spedos Type, Early Cycladic II, circa 2500-2400 B.C.The legs conjoined, the feet slightly splayed outwards, the toes incised, 17cm highFootnotes:Provenance:Private collection, Geneva, acquired in the early 1990s.With Michael Ward Gallery, New York, 2017.Private collection, Belgium, acquired from the above. For more idols with similar legs and feet see J. Thimme, Art and Culture of the Cyclades, Chicago, 1977, pp.269, 273-275.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Roman blue-green glass long fusiform unguentarium Circa 4th Century A.D.The elongated body swollen at the shoulder, then tapering towards the thick globular base, with long slender cylindrical neck, 42cm longFootnotes:Provenance:Lions Gate Bazaar, Jerusalem, Israel.Private Collection, Robert Cummings, Palm Beach, Florida, USA, acquired from the above in 1972, and thence by descent.Fine Pre-Columbian, Tribal Art & Classical Antiquities, Arte Primitivo, New York, 8 December 2016, lot 479.The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 348), acquired from the above from the above sale.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Roman pale green glass hemispherical bowl Circa 4th Century A.D.The deep bowl with a cut-off and ground rim, with four wheel-cut bands along the exterior, one around the rim, two framing a band of twenty applied and marvered deep blue blobs, a final band above the base, the bottom slightly pushed in, 8cm high, 12.2cm diamFootnotes:Provenance:Sergey Antonoshkin Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany, 1960s.David G. Giles (1940-2022) Collection, London, UK.The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 227), acquired from the above on the 2 February 2009.Published:Thermenmuseum Magazine, Museumtijdschrift, no.4, June/July 2011, pp.28-29. Exhibited:Thermenmuseum, Heerlen, NL, 'Romeins Glas uit Particulier Bezit', 29 April–28 August 2011, exhibition no.55.A similar cup in the British Museum formerly in the L.P. di Cesnola and Felix Slade Collections, was found in Cyprus together with a shallow bowl with matching decoration (D. B. Harden et al., Glass of the Caesars, Milan, 1987, p.113, no.46). The high quality of the decoration on these pieces and on another example, also from Cyprus, in the Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery, suggests that these are early examples of a type of decoration that continued into the 5th Century A.D.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Roman aubergine glass amphora Circa 4th Century A.D.The piriform body with a tall cylindrical neck and slightly flaring cut-off rim, applied pale green glass handles, set on a tooled ring base, 20.8cm high Footnotes:Provenance:Private Collection, Israel, 1960s. With Sasson Ancient Art, Jerusalem. The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB267), acquired from the above on the 9 February 2012.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Roman olive green glass etched amphora Circa 4th Century A.D.With shallow funnel mouth and applied combed handles, the body decorated with three registers of wheel-abraded lines and shallow facets, with knopped terminal, 20.7cm high Footnotes:Provenance: Private collection, purchased from Cecil Court in the 1960s–1970s.Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 13 October 2006, lot 318. The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 195), acquired from the above sale.For a similarly decorated amphora suggested to be of Egyptian or Syrian origin cf. S. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery, 1980, pp.86-7, fig.235, and for another, D. Whitehouse, Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Volume I, 1997, p.260, no.445.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Villanovan bronze necklace Circa 8th-7th Century B.C.Composed of a linked chain with ridged tubular beads, nine pendants each elongated with central spherical swelling and two shorter pendants with globular terminals, 51cm longFootnotes:Provenance:Formerly in the collection of Lt. General Augustus Pitt Rivers, (1827-1900).Private collection, France.For an 8th Century bronze disc from Piecenum, Northern Italy, with similar pendants cf. S. Cassani (ed) The Art of the Italic Peoples, 1993, p.141 p.51.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Roman pale blue-green glass spherical flask Circa 4th Century A.D.With bulbous body, tall cylindrical neck and flared funnel mouth, with horizontal flange below the rounded rim, 16.3cm high Footnotes:Provenance: C.A. Hessing Collection.Hans van Rossum Collection, Dordrecht, Netherlands, coll. no.70, acquired from the above in 1997. The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 107), acquired from the above on the 7 November 2001.For the type see the Metropolitan Museum of Art: coll. no.17.194.128.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Three late Roman - early Byzantine glass vessels circa 5th-6th Century A.D.A lamp in the form of a deep bowl, with a thick tubular rim and three applied handles, the cylindrical wick emerging upright from the base interior, 9cm high; a bulb-shaped lamp with striated decoration, 9.6cm high, and a pale yellow-green glass pear-shaped flask with tall funnel neck, 12.6cm high (3)Footnotes:Provenance:Three-handled oil lamp: Archaeological Center Ltd, Jaffa, Auction 30, 15 October 2003, lot 209.Bulb-shaped oil lamp: with Christopher Sheppard, London, 1989.With Artemission, London.Anonymous sale; Artemission, London, 11 October 2017, lot 71.Pear-shaped flask: private collection, New Jersey, USA, 1990s.Artemis Gallery, Louisville, Colorado, Clearance Sale-Ancient/Ethnographic Art, 1 February 2018, lot 22B. The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 158, NFB 363 & NFB 365). All acquired from the above.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A late Roman - early Byzantine pale blue-green glass flask Circa 5th-6th Century A.D.The funnel mouth mould-blown, with applied dark blue spiral ribbing, the neck constricted to form two globular and biconical sections, the spherical body with traces of vertical ribbing, 15.4cm highFootnotes:Provenance:With Archea Ancient Art, Amsterdam. The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 171), acquired from the above on the 23 September 2004.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A late Roman - early Byzantine deep turquoise-green glass jar Circa 6th Century A.D.The funnel neck with tooled horizontal flange, and cylindrical tapering body, a series of twenty-seven close-set handles forming a vertical case around the upper section, applied from left to right, 14.7cm high Footnotes:Provenance:With Safani Gallery Inc, New York. The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 183), acquired from the above on the 10 June 2005.Published: Ancient Art: The Unknown Artist, Safani Gallery Inc, New York, 2001, pp.15-16.For a similar late Roman jar with multiple handles cf. S Matheson Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery, 1980, p.119, no.316.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Byzantine amber-brown glass hexagonal jug Late 6th - early 7th Century A.D.The body mould-blown with six decorative panels with motifs in sunken relief, including three with concentric lozenges, and three Christian motifs each with a cross, the cylindrical neck free-blown, the trefoil mouth with infolded rim, the handle pulled up from the shoulders and joined to the edge of the rim, 16cm high Footnotes:Provenance:Property from the Estate of Alexander White III, California, acquired between the 1960s and 1980. Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 30 September 2015, lot 96. The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 321), acquired from the above sale.This jug belongs to a group of mould-blown pilgrim vessels with Christian, Jewish or unassigned symbols believed to have been made in the vicinity of Jerusalem from the late 6th Century A.D. until shortly after the Persian conquest of Jerusalem in AD 614. Over seventy vessels are known to have been formed from nine different moulds with Christian motifs, and this jug belongs to Newby's Jerusalem Series, Christian Hexagonal 1, M. Newby, Byzantine Mould-Blown Glass from the Holy Land with Jewish or Christian Symbols. The Shlomo Moussaieff Collection, London, 2008, pp.74-7, 104-9, nos.17-19. This corresponds to D. Barag, 'Glass Pilgrim Vessels from Jerusalem', Pt.1, Journal of Glass Studies, 12, 1970, pp.35-63.Over thirty jugs are known of this mould, that range in height from 14-17cm, and of these, nineteen have a similar folded thumb-rest and they are all made in dark brown glass. Eight of these jugs are preserved in public collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, Wadworth Atheneum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Eretz Museum, Tel Aviv.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An Egyptian mosaic glass ibis inlay Ptolemaic - Roman Period, circa 1st Century B.C. - 1st Century A.D.Set in a translucent turquoise matrix, the beak, neck, legs, feet and tail of translucent amethyst, the outline of the body and wing are translucent blue, the body and upper legs in opaque white, the eye encircled with a ring of red, walking on a red groundline, 2.9cm x 1.6cm Footnotes:Provenance:Private collection, France, 1950s.With Arteas Ltd.The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 300), acquired from the above on the 20 July 2014.For another ibis inlay on a blue ground see The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc.no.26.7.1204.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Greek terracotta Siren balsamarium Circa 6th century B.C.Seated with her head turned at right-angles to the body, with long tresses of hair falling across the shoulders, the head surmounted by a polos forming the aperture, the tail fanning out behind, 16.5cm highFootnotes:Provenance: With Mathias Komor (1909-1984) Works of Art, New York. Private collection. Andrew Jones Auctions, Los Angeles, Design for the Home and Garden, Day 2, 19 May 2019, lot 483. Private collection, California, acquired at the above sale.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Roman enamelled bronze pyxis Circa 2nd-3rd Century A.D.Of hexagonal form, decorated with millefiori glass inlays, each side with three bands above and below a central formation of four squares, on three sides the bands alternate between red, white, and blue chequerboard, framing four squares of blue and white chequerboard, on the other three sides, two bands of blue and one of white frame four squares of red and white chequerboard, the top with two concentric bands of inlay, one of white with blue flowers, the other of blue and white chequerboard, set on three ball feet and with three suspension loops, a circular opening at the mouth, 7.2cm high Footnotes:Provenance:L. Grenacs Collection, 1960s.W. Bastiaan Blok Collection, Netherlands.Anonymous Sale; Pierre Bergé Auctioneers, Paris, France, 17 June 2010, lot 258C.The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 257), acquired from the above sale.Exhibited:The National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden, NL, 'GLASS', 1 June 2020 - 28 February 2021.The use for such high-quality manufactured containers varies between carrying precious unguents, such as perfume or incense, or for use as inkwells. Six other complete pyxides are currently known; one in Cologne in the Römisches Germanisches Museum, another in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (acc.no.47.100.7). The third example was sold in Paris, Drouot 19-20 May 1987, lot 426 and was published in N. Thierry, A propos d'une nouvelle pyxide d'epoque Romaine à décor d'émail millefiori, Antike Kunst Bale, 1962, p.65-68. The fourth was part of the Nelson Bunker and William Herbert Hunt Collection and was published in the exhibition catalogue, Wealth of the Ancient World, no.53, and Sotheby's, June 19, 1990, lot 53. The fifth was sold at Christie's, London, Wednesday, 10 July 1991, lot 129 and is published there, where it is noted to have been found in North-West Essex and is now part of the British Museum Collection (reg. no. 1991,1201.1). The sixth was offered at Bonhams on 29 April 2004, lot 287.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Greek bronze situla Circa 4th Century B.C.The flattened rim punched with a dotted inscription, reading: EPIΣYEIMI, 'belonging to Erisos', a band of tongue decoration beneath the rim, the double bail handles with bud terminals attached to a palmette appliqué on either side, the curved sides tapering to a ring base, 20cm high excluding the handlesFootnotes:Provenance:Art market, France.Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 8 June 2001, lot 163.David Rowse Collection, London, acquired from the above sale.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A sizeable Greek marble head of a goddess Circa 4th-3rd Century B.C.The profile head carved in high relief, portrayed with typical soft features, with deep-set eyes and full lips, the wavy hair secured beneath a fillet, the small ear pierced, probably from a funerary stele, 29cm highFootnotes:Provenance:French art market.Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 5 October 2000, lot 215.David Rowse Collection, London, acquired from the above sale.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An Egyptian painted limestone relief Late First Intermediate Period - Middle Kingdom, circa 2000 B.C.Carved in shallow relief with the torso of a man in profile wearing a smooth wig, facing towards part of a column of text: 'imy-r per', steward, with an incomplete name beginning 'Khenty' with red pigment remaining, 20cm x 18cmFootnotes:Provenance:London art market.With Richard Philp, London. The David Rowse Collection, London, acquired from the above 12 June 2001.Khenty-khety was a popular name in the late First Intermediate Period - Middle Kingdom although the second part of the name is not retained in this fragment.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A sizeable Attic white-ground lekythos Attributed to the Inscription Painter, circa 460 B.C.The remains of finely detailed outlines of two mourners before a tomb, the young woman offering a lekythos holding oil, the man holding a lyre before the stepped stele, 34.3cm highFootnotes:Provenance:Japanese art market 2005.Japanese private collection 2005.Kotobukiya Co. Ltd, Tokyo 2017.There is another example of a white-ground lekythos by the Inscription Painter, with mourning scene in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, acc.no.06.1021.294. From the late 6th Century B.C. onwards, it was customary to use lekythoi for the pouring of libations over the tombs of the deceased and in the latter half of the 5th Century, the white-ground lekythos was popularly used as a funerary vase.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An Egyptian dark blue glazed faience ear-plug New Kingdom, circa 1550-1069 BCThe reel-shaped ear-plug decorated on the slightly convex surface in high relief with a central rosette, surrounded by rectangular repeat pattern, 4.3cm diamFootnotes:Provenance:With B.M.S., Switzerland.Private collection, London, acquired from the above 14 September 1981. For a discussion on ear-plugs and an illustration of a floral rosette pair shown worn by a woman on a 21st Dynasty wood coffin, cf. C. Andrews, Ancient Egyptian Jewellery, British Museum, 1990, pp.114-5, fig.95. There is also an example of a faience floral ear-plug on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, coll. no.15.3.872.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An Egyptian turquoise glazed faience amulet of a lion-headed goddess Third Intermediate Period, circa 1069-735 B.C.The lion-headed goddess, probably Sekhmet, enthroned, holding a wadj sceptre, attachment loop behind, 4cm highFootnotes:Provenance:With John J. Klejman, New York, 1966. Klejman, who was born in Poland became an American citizen. As both a collector and dealer of African art, he owned the J J Klejman Gallery which open between 1950-1974.Sotheby's, New York, Property Sold For the Benefit of the Mozes S. Schupf Foundation, Inc., 8 June 1994, lot 316 (part).Private collection, London, acquired at the above sale.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Greek bronze figure of Pan Circa 5th-4th Century B.C.The goat-legged god shown dancing with his right hoof raised and arms aloft, wearing a tight-fitting cap, with a well-defined chest and small tail, 11cm highFootnotes:Provenance: Münzen und Medaillen A.G., Auktion XXII, Basel, 13 May 1961, lot 61. Henri Smeets Collection, Weert, The Netherlands, 1961-77, Smeets, no.163.The Smeets Collection of Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 7 November 1977, lot 172.Anonymous sale; Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York 14 December 1978, lot 265. Private collection, USA, acquired at the above sale. Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London 16 April 2015, lot 118. Private collection, USA, acquired at the above sale.Published:A Private Collection: A Catalogue of The Henri Smeets Collection, Weert, 1975, no.163. For two other similar bronze figures of Pan, cf. O.W. Muscarella, Ancient Art, The Norbert Schimmel Collection, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974, nos.25 and 25bis (with reference to the Smeets figure).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A sizeable Egyptian pale blue glazed faience Pataikos amulet Late Period, 26th Dynasty, circa 664-332 B.C.The protective dwarf god standing naked, with rounded limbs, clenched fists, and finely defined facial features, with short-cropped hair, a suspension loop at the back of the neck, 7cm highFootnotes:Provenance:Anonymous sale; Bonhams, 8 December 1992, lot 383.Private collection, London, acquired from the above sale.For a discussion of Pataikos amulets cf. C. Andrews, Amulets of Ancient Egypt, British Museum, 1994, p.39, fig.36a. She notes that the finest examples of these sizeable detailed modelled amulets were created from the Third Intermediate Period onwards. There is a 26th Dynasty Pataikos amulet fragment with similarly finely modelled features on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, collection no.26.7.892For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An Etruscan bronze figure of a dancing satyr Circa 5th-4th Century B.C.The figure depicted mid-dance, balancing on his proper left leg, his right leg raised, his face tilted upwards, with full beard and long hair, his left arm resting on his hip, his right arm raised to his temple, a short curled tail at the back, 8.2cm highFootnotes:Provenance:With Sasson Gallery, Jerusalem, before 2000.Canadian private collection, acquired in 2001.Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 7 July 2016, lot 22. Private collection, USA, acquired at the above sale.While both the Greeks and Etruscans were fond of figures of dancing satyrs, those of the Etruscans tended to be more playful and humorous in their depictions. For other satyrs in dancing positions see, The British Museum, London, acc. no.1905,0710.2, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc.nos.23.160.51i and 1972.118.68.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Two Egyptian blue gazed faience amuletic plaques of the Osirian triad 26th Dynasty, circa 664-525 B.C.From the same workshop and likely from the same mould, each depicting Isis standing with her son Horus and her sister Nephthys, the goddesses crowned by their name-signs, Horus with braided side-lock of youth, attachment loops on reverse, each 4.3cm high (2)Footnotes:Provenance:With John J. Klejman, New York, 1966. Klejman, who was born in Poland became an American citizen. As both a collector and dealer of African art, he owned the J J Klejman Gallery which open between 1950-1974.Sotheby's, New York, Property Sold For the Benefit of the Mozes S. Schupf Foundation, Inc., 8 June 1994, lot 5.Private collection, London, acquired at the above sale.Carol Andrews notes that Osirian triad amulets with sharply detailed glazed composition are characteristic of the Saite Period and were typically positioned in the area of the lower torso of a mummy. Cf. C. Andrews, Amulets of Ancient Egypt, British Museum 1994, p.49 and back cover illustration.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A small Egyptian travertine footed cup 'tazza' New Kingdom, circa 1550-1069 B.C.Carved from one piece, set on a flared foot with reel-shaped body, 3.7cm highFootnotes:Provenance:With Dr Jan Beekmans (1927-2008), Borken, Germany, acquired in the 1970s.Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 24 June 1998, lot 344. Property of a private Dutch collection, acquired from the above sale.Published:C.A.R. Andrews and J. van Dijk (eds), Objects for Eternity: Egyptian Antiquities from the W. Arnold Meijer Collection, Mainz, 2006, p.123, no.2.30. Exhibited:Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam, Objecten voor de Eeuwigheid, November 2006 - March 2007.Reiss Engelhorn Museen Mannheim, Agypten, Land der Unsterblichkeid, November 2014 - January 2020.Cf. Egypt's Golden Age: the Art of Living in the New Kingdom 1558-1085 B.C., Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 1982, p.129, no.120 for a larger example of similar form.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An Egyptian black stone fragmentary pectoral with central scarab element New Kingdom, 20th Dynasty, circa 1186-1069 B.C.The scarab carved in high relief, the wing-case recessed for inlay, now missing, flanked by a small female adorant, her arms raised in supplication, a partial column of text behind her, the remains of text covered in gold foil, possibly reading, 'May my name be victorious: protection..' on the back, the upper body of a male figure facing right with both arms raised towards offerings(?) set above partially preserved engraved text reading, 'Osiris Lord of Eternity forever..', 7cm longFootnotes:Provenance:Eric Pascoe (d.2019), Calenick House, Truro, Cornwall.Lodge & Thomas, Truro, Antiques & Fine Art Two Day Auction-Including the Ron Clifford Collection of Dinky & Britains toys; , 26-27 September 2019, lot 684.Acquired by the present owner at the above sale.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An Egyptian jasper grasshopper amulet bracelet New Kingdom, circa 1550-1069 B.C.Each of the fourteen amulets with linear notches at the heads and the legs indicated by a double inverted 'V' form and pierced at either end, interspersed with two rows of small yellow faience disc beads, with button clasp, re-strung as a bracelet, 20cm longFootnotes:Provenance:French art market.Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 25 November 1997, lot 105. Private collection, Europe. Exhibited: APM, Archaeological Museum of the University of Amsterdam, 17 November 2006-25 March 2007. Published: C.A.R. Andrews and J. van Dijk (eds), Objects for Eternity: Egyptian Antiquities from the W. Arnold Meijer Collection, Mainz, 2006, p. 89, no. 2.11.For a discussion of the funerary symbolism of locust/grasshopper amulets cf. C. Andrews, Amulets of Ancient Egypt, London, 1994, p.66; the Pyramid Texts refer to the ascent to heaven in the form of grasshoppers. Due to their fecundity, grasshoppers may also have been associated with fertility, while their plentiful swarming activities could have been linked to abundance and wealth.There is a New Kingdom necklace composed of almost identical carnelian grasshopper amulets on view at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, acc. no. 1987.105.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Three Egyptian swivel rings with swivel scarabs Early New Kingdom, circa 1550-1400 B.C.Comprising a lapis lazuli and gold ring, the lapis scarab engraved with an ankh and neb sign, the tubular shank bound with wire with spherical terminals to either side of the scarab; a steatite scarab bound in gold and engraved with a repeat scroll motif, with separate 'U' shaped silver shank; and a green glazed steatite scarab, the underside with the cartouche for Thutmosis III, with epithet 'the Lower Egyptian King is established', set on a bronze shank, 2.5cm-2.7cm wide (3)Footnotes:Provenance:Lapis scarab: with Dr. Jan Beekmans (1927 – 2008), Borken. Private collection, Europe, acquired from the above October 2001. Steatite scarab: Gaston Maspero (1846-1916) Collection. Anonymous sale; François de Ricqlès, Paris, 29-30 September 1997, lot 324 (part). Private collection, Europe, acquired from the above sale. Green steatite scarab: Fürsten von Hohenzollern Collection, Germany. London art market.Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 8 November 2001, lot 268 (part). Private collection, Europe, acquired at the above sale.Published: C.A.R. Andrews and J. van Dijk (eds), Objects for Eternity: Egyptian Antiquities from the W. Arnold Meijer Collection, Mainz, 2006, p. 93-95, no. 214 a, d & e.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An Egyptian polychrome wood mummy mask Late Third Intermediate - Late Period, 25th-26th Dynasty, circa 747-525 B.C.From the lid of an inner coffin, wearing a broad striped tripartite wig, braided beard with curled tip, and broad collar, the face with full lips rounded at the corners, straight nose, inlaid eyes, the long eyebrows and cosmetic lines inset in bronze, 47cm highFootnotes:Provenance: With Champollion Gallery, 689 Madison Avenue, New York.New York private collection, acquired by the present owner from the above in 1981.Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 3 June 2015, lot 14.Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 4 December 2018, lot 4. Private collection, California, acquired at the above sale.For a very similar mask, see the coffin of Horankh in the Dallas Museum of Art (obj. no.1994.184), the eyes and eyebrows inlaid in obsidian, calcite, and bronze.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A large Coptic wall hanging Circa 5th-6th Century A.D.Of linen and natural, red, pink, green, ochre and dark brown wool, composed of four horizontal bands of fruit bowls, the red fruit contained in pedestal krater-shaped vessels, interspersed with red, green and pink flowerheads, with heart-shaped floral buds in the vertical borders, 190cm x 140cmFootnotes:Provenance:With Galerie Samarcande, Paris.Acquired from the above on the 3 March 1981 by Ms Roudabeh Alam.Bequeathed from the above to the present owner.It is likely that wall hangings such as the above were used in a domestic setting. The dry climate was helpful in the preservation of Coptic textiles, although it is unusual for a large hanging to survive in such good condition. There is another Coptic hanging dated to the 5th Century A.D., in the Metropolitan Museum of Art which includes similar fruit (in baskets) and floral rosettes in the ground, coll. no.90.5.905. There is also a rosette motif of similar colours, coll. no.2002.494.855. These textiles would have been woven by Coptic Christians in workshops that continued to function into the early Islamic period.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An Etruscan pottery askos in the form of a duck Attributed to the Clusium Group, 350–325 B.C.Decorated with detailed stylised feathers, each wing with the head of a woman in profile, wearing a laurel leaf and pendant earrings, 20cm long, 11.5cm highFootnotes:Provenance:European private collection acquired between the 1970s and 1990s.Bertolami Auction London, 10 July 2019, lot 46.There is some speculation about the use of such askoi that seem too large for holding scented oils. It has been suggested they may have been used for lamp oil or in connection with wine.The Clusium Group style is found in workshops in the Chiusi and Volterra areas. Beazley lists 20 examples of Etruscan askoi, many assigned to the Clusium Group, cf. Etruscan vase painting, J.D Beazley, Oxford, 1947, pp.119-120. There is a duck askos of the Clusium group in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection no.19.192.14 and another in the Louvre, decorated with a female head, ibid, p.119. Clusium, F. Duck-Askoi, no.12.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Roman silver theatre mask in the form of a comic actor Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D.With exaggerated deeply furrowed brow, heavy-lidded eyes, prominent snub nose, and characteristic enlarged gaping mouth, a berried ivy wreath in his hair, 4cm highFootnotes:Provenance:German private collection, acquired pre-1960.New York private collection.With Medusa Ancient Art, Montreal, Canada.Private collection, Hong Kong, acquired from the above in August 2008.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Roman bronze figure of Isis-Fortuna Circa 1st Century A.D.Wearing a diadem in her wavy hair, surmounted by a modius, gazing slightly to her right, she stands with weight resting on her left leg, wearing a chiton and swathed in a himation tied across her chest in her characteristic knot, 20.5cm highFootnotes:Provenance:With Sasson Ancient Art, Jerusalem, acquired in Israel in the 1990s.Christie's New York, 13 December 2013, lot 139.It is likely that the now missing arms of this figure would have held a ship's rudder and a cornucopia. The cult of Isis-Fortuna was popular throughout the Roman Empire with major centres of worship in Rome and Alexandria. This statue may have come from a private shrine in a Roman house or have been a votive offering.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Roman silver spoon Circa 4th Century A.DThe pear-shaped scoop, with a thickened arch with a projecting spur above, decorated with punched dot letters: 'RC' where it joins the long plain tapering handle, 14cm longFootnotes:Provenance:UK art market.Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 30 October 2003, lot 275.Private collection, UK, acquired from the above sale.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An Egyptian carnelian and jasper bead necklace New Kingdom - Third Intermediate Period, circa 1550-664 B.C.Composed of a central amuletic djed column amulet, 3cm, ink inscribed in red: 388.30 interspersed with poppy head pendants, 9mm-23mm, and graded spherical beads, 37cm long, re-strungFootnotes:Provenance:Goddard (1869-1925) and Josephine Cook DuBois (1864-1961) Collection, USA, acquired in Egypt, circa 1901-1907; thence by descent to grandson George DuBois, then passed to his wife Judith on his death; by decent to the present owner.The Goddard & Josephine Dubois Collection was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1920-38, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 1945-60, and the Museum of Man California 1968. The presence of the ink inscribed number on the djed pillar, suggests this was a museum exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An Attic Litte Master black-figure band-cup Circa 550-500 B.C.Each side with two opposed horsemen, flanked by two nude male runners, one facing the scene, one turning back to observe the scene, with a vertical Greek inscription: ποπο; one side with the addition of a standing himation-clad youth standing behind the left horse, palmettes tendrils flank both handles, enlivened in added white and wine-red, with incisions, the reserved tondo with dotted circle, 29cm diam including handles, 13.5cm highFootnotes:Provenance:Münzen und Medaillen, Basel, A.G., Switzerland.Dr. Hans Stenzl (1880 Munich, Germany - 1980 Riehen, Switzerland), acquired in 1957. Dr Stenzl was a research chemist at F. Hoffmann-La Roche & Cie. AG and J.R. Geigy AG; he was the inventor of important pain-relieving and anti-rheumatic medications.He formed his collection of antiquities between 1953-1968. Private collection, London, inherited by the present owner in 1980.Beazley Archive no.9017867. Published:Immerwahr, H., A Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions, Preliminary Edition (1998): no.2111. For a discussion on similar inscriptions on Little Master cups, see Pieter Heesen, Meaningless, But Not Useless! Nonsense Inscriptions on Athenian Little-Master Cups, no.38, in Dimitrios Yatromanolakis (Ed), Epigraphy of Art: Ancient Greek Vase-Inscriptions and Vase-Paintings (2016).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Bronze Age gold and rock crystal toggle pin Possibly Cyprus, circa 1400-1300 B.C.The spherical rock crystal fluted bead affixed to the pin and capped by a disc terminal, the body of the pin decorated in gold with fluted segments, tapering to a point, an attachment loop on one side, 10cm longFootnotes:Provenance:With Sumer Gallery of Ancient Art, New York.Acquired by the present owner from the above on the 5 June 1987.This elegant toggle pin was used to secure and adorn draped clothing. The fluted bead at the top of the pin is shaped to resemble a poppy head. An example from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, acc.no.1989.281.14 rattles when shaken. See also an example solely in gold from the Cleveland Museum of Art, acc.no.1947.36. Further examples exist in the British Museum, London, specifically acc. nos.1897,0401.348 and 1897,0401.102 which have similar attachment loops.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Greek bronze and terracotta diadem Circa 4th-3rd Century B.C.The diadem formed from bronze with gilding remaining on the bronze ivy leaves, interspersed with white gesso-painted terracotta berries attached with fine bronze strands, 24cm longFootnotes:Provenance: Private collection, Germany.With Royal-Athena Galleries, New York. Ian Colverson (1940-2022) Collection, UK, acquired from the above on the 4 May 2009.Ian Colverson was a Postwar & Contemporary printmaker whose works are held in many museums and galleries worldwide, including the Tate Gallery, London and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.There is a wreath with clay berries and gilt ivy leaves in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, cf. M. Constock and C. Vermeule Greek, Etruscan and Roman bronzes in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 1972, pp.199-200.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A pair of gold hoop rings Circa 3rd-1st Century B.C. - 3rd Century A.D.Of tubular cross-section with tapering terminals, secured by the gold wire overlapping and twisting around the shoulders, Ring sizes I 1/2 and K, 2g each (2)Footnotes:Provenance:With Faustus Fine Art, London.Private collection Europe, acquired from the above between 1980-1990.Private collection, The Netherlands.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Roman gilded glass, gold and faience bead necklace Circa 1st Century B.C. - 1st Century A.D.Formed of thirty-nine gilded glass cylindrical beads of varying sizes interspersed with eighteen collared spherical gold beads and fifty-six blue and red Egyptian faience disc beads, with a central larger gilded glass bead, all restrung with a modern S-hook closure, 40cm longFootnotes:Provenance:With Fortuna Fine Art, New York. Private collection, Europe, acquired from the above 1990.Gilded glass was an especially popular choice for jewellery from the mid 1st Century B.C. to the mid 1st Century A.D.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A pair of Roman gold earrings Circa 1st Century A.D.The plain hoops with loop and eye clasp, a double collar of granulated discs tops the biconical drop beads of amber glass with central opaque white glass banding, imitating agate, hanging pendant below, 5.3cm and 4.8cm long, 6g (2)Footnotes:Provenance:With Faustus Fine Art, London.Private collection Europe, acquired from the above between 1980-1990.Private collection, The Netherlands.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Four small Roman gold children's rings Circa 1st Century B.C. - 3rd Century A.D.Comprising a garnet cabochon ring; a carnelian ring engraved with a youth wearing a fillet; a carnelian cabochon ring; a signet ring with an engraved palm frond, 9-11mm diam.; weight 0.9-1.9g; together with another ring, the quartz intaglio engraved with a scorpion, ring size F; 1.5g (5)Footnotes:Provenance: European Art market, acquired before 2000.Private collection, France.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Roman gold and carnelian intaglio ring with Nike Circa 1st-3rd Century A.D.The goddess standing in profile facing left, a wreath in her outstretched left arm, a palm frond balanced on her shoulder, intaglio 14mm, ring size N, 8.8gFootnotes:Provenance: European Art Market prior to 2000.Private collection, France.For other examples of a Nike in a similar type, though less finely engraved, see The British Museum, London, reg. nos.1917,0501.501 & 1917,0501.564.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Roman gold and red jasper intaglio ring of Cupid Circa 2nd Century A.D.The diminutive figure facing left, casting out a fishing line with both hands, leaning on a tipped-over basket, groundline below, intaglio 8mm diam., ring size N, weight 11.1gFootnotes:Provenance: European Art market prior to 2000. Private collection, France.For other examples of Cupid fishing see, The British Museum, London, reg. nos.1923,0401.485 and 1987,0212.178.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A pair of Roman gold and emerald earrings and a Roman gold and emerald pendant Circa 3rd-4th Century A.D.Each earring an openwork disc forming a rosette centred by an emerald bead, one not ancient, a foliate cross-bar backed by three loops from which the pendants hang, composed of a red stone within a lozenge-shaped box settings, above a beaded wire and each terminating in an emerald bead; the square openwork gold pendant with central emerald bead, with two small pendants below composed of a red stone within a circular box setting, an emerald bead hanging pendant below from a gold foliate scroll, the pendant with a modern gold chain, earrings 4.5cm long, 6.5 grams; pendant 4cm long, 9.2g (3)Footnotes:Provenance:With Charles Ede Ltd, London.Private collection, London, acquired from the above at the Grosvenor House Antiques Fair, 2000.For another pair of similar earrings see D. von Bothmer, Glories of the Past. Ancient Art from the Shelby White and Leon Levy Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, p.253, no.187.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A pair of Roman gold earrings Circa 2nd-3rd Century A.D.The hoop formed of two strands of twisted gold wire with a loop and eye fastening, the domed frontal plate edged with twisted wire, a granulation drop ornamenting the centre, 2.8cm and 2.9cm long, 3.16g together (2)Footnotes:Provenance:With Faustus Fine Art, London.Private collection Europe, acquired from the above between 1980-1990.Private collection, The Netherlands. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Two Roman gilt-bronze crossbow fibulae Circa 3rd-6th Century A.D.Both with three cupola-shaped terminals, the larger with much gilding remaining, a hexagonal crossbar with a raised band of ornament above, the spine of the arched bow with an inlaid circle and line motif, the footplate with similarly inlaid central motif, flanked by three pairs of moulded palmiers; the smaller fibula with half moon moulded decoration on the footplate, the pin ramains, 9.5cm and 7.2cm long (2)Footnotes:Provenance:Private collection Schellingerhout, Netherlands, 2003.with Karl Stimm, Akanthos Ancient Art, Antwerp, Belgium, 2016.Private collection, Belgium, acquired from the above.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Greek core-formed glass amphoriskos Circa late 6th-5th Century B.C.The ribbed ovoid body with opaque cobalt blue ground and yellow and turquoise marvered trails, with applied flat-bottomed knopped base, the handles and disc rim with yellow trail, 8cm highFootnotes:Provenance:Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 13 December 1995, lot 12. The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 011), acquired from the above sale. Published: J. v.d. Groen & H. van Rossum, Romeins Glas uit Particulier Bezit, Utrecht, 2011, p.16.For a similar roughly made example in the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, which David Grose thought could have been made in Rhodes in the late 6th to 5th Century B.C., see David F. Grose, Early Ancient Glass, The Toledo Museum of Art (Toledo 1989), p.144, no.99.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Greek core-formed glass unguentarium Circa 3rd Century B.C.Of cobalt-blue glass, the ovoid body with opaque yellow, red, white and light-green marvered glass, combed into a feather pattern, the disc rim edged with yellow, two lug handles below the sloping shoulders, tapering towards the pedestal foot, edged in opaque yellow, 9.7cm highFootnotes:Provenance:Paul E. Cuperus Collection, Laren, Netherlands. The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 162), acquired from the above on the 16 April 2004.There is a Greek unguentarium of similar form in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, coll.no.1972.118.171.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Greek core-formed glass unguentarium Circa 3rd Century B.C.Of cobalt-blue glass, with opaque yellow edged rim, continuing spirally down the neck, with added opaque white thread extending to the body, combed to create zig-zags on the upper body, with spiral encircling bands below, 11.1cm high Footnotes:Provenance: The Breitbart Collection.The Breitbart Collection of Antiquities and Ancient Glass, Sotheby's, New York, 20 June 1990, lot 66.Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 8 December 2000, lot 2.The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection, (NFB 101) acquired from the above sale.See David F. Grose, Early Ancient Glass, The Toledo Museum of Art (Toledo 1989), p.166, no.158.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Hellenistic core-formed glass alabastron Mid-2nd - mid-1st Century B.C.The cobalt blue body with two applied blue glass lug handles, decorated with four panels of feathered yellow decoration, and one panel with festoons, spiral trail around the neck and rim, 9.5cm high Footnotes:Provenance: Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 14 June 1996, lot 149.The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 019), acquired from the above sale.This is a more unusual core-formed shape, from the Hellenistic Period, with another example in the Toledo Museum of Art, where the decoration is described as carelessly formed. See David F. Grose, Early Ancient Glass, The Toledo Museum of Art (Toledo 1989), pp.167-8, no.164. This looser and less precise decoration occurs on other examples of this more unusual form, including one excavated from an Augustan Period tomb on the island of Samothrace, Greece. See Elsbeth B. Dusenbery, Ancient glass from the cemeteries of Samothrace, Journal of Glass Studies IX (1967), p.37, no.3, fig.4.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An Achaemenid rod-formed glass cylindrical kohl tube Circa 5th-4th Century B.C.Of dark amber to black glass, the upper half with opaque white spiral trail partly overlaid by translucent amber spiral trail to the lower body, the cylindrical body slightly narrowing towards the flattened rim, 7.1cm high Footnotes:Provenance: Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 17 October 1996, lot 22A. The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 037), acquired from the above sale.There is a similar rod-formed kohl tube with trail decoration in the Toledo Museum of Art, collection no.1980.42See Dan P. Barag, Rod-formed kohl-tubes of the mid-first millennium BC, Journal of Glass Studies 17, 1975, pp.23-36. Barag Group IIA, and D.F. Grose, Early Ancient Glass. Core-formed, rod-formed and cast vessels and objects from the late bronze age to the early roman empire, 1600 B.C. to A.D.50 (Hudson Hill Press, New York 1989), pp.86-7, no.33.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An Achaemenid colourless cast glass shallow bowl Western Asiatic, probably Persia, late 4th Century B.C.The thick cast bowl with a wheel-cut groove on the interior below the flaring rim, decorated on the exterior with twenty-one petals, each with a medial rib, emanating from a circle around the middle of the dish, the base with slight indentation, 12.2cm diamFootnotes:Provenance:With Joseph Uzan, Paris. SVV Enchères Rive Gauche, Paris, Sale 194, , 19-20 November 2012, lot 318.The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 280), acquired from the above sale.The form of this vessel comes from metal and especially silver prototypes, while the fine colourless glass was made in imitation of rock crystal. Both similar glass examples in The Corning Museum of Glass and the Toledo Museum of Art are larger, at 17.5 cm and 17.3cm in diameter respectively. The former has an omphalos in the centre of the base, is earlier, circa 450-400 BC, with the indentation on the underside of the base affording a better grip of the drinking bowl. The glass bowl in Toledo, which is dated to the late 4th Century B.C., also has similar wheel-cut elongated petals with rounded ends. See Sidney M. Goldstein, Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (Corning, NY, 1979), p.118, no.248. For another example, with more flaring rim, dated to the 4th Century B.C., cf, David F. Grose, Early Ancient Glass. The Toledo Museum of Art (New York, 1989), p.87, nos.34a & b.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A small Roman ribbon glass shallow dish Early 1st Century A.D.The lens-shaped vessel comprising bands of translucent blue, opaque red, opaque yellow, opaque white, opaque green, a colourless glass reticelli rod with opaque yellow spirals, and a strip of blue reticelli rod with white spirals around the rim, 9cm diamFootnotes:Provenance:With Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, 1983. Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 9 December 1999, lot 464. With Barakat Gallery, London, 1999.David G. Giles Collection, London, acquired from the above April 2008. The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 308), acquired from the above on the 8 June 2015.Published:Gallery Ueda, Ancient Art II, Tokyo, no.14.This striped mosaic shallow dish belongs to a small group of similar lens-shaped striped mosaic small dishes including examples in the Toledo Museum of Art, The Corning Museum of Glass, and Landesmuseum Trier. In these bowls several lengths of composite mosaic canes, each containing themselves different lengths of opaque, translucent and even reticelli strips were laid side by side and secured by a reticelli rim. See David F. Grose, Early Ancient Glass, The Toledo Museum of Art (Toledo 1989), pp.220, 252, 293-4, no.359. Sidney M. Goldstein, Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (Corning, NY, 1979), p.197, no.534, and Karin Goethert-Polaschek, Katalog der römischen Gläser des Rheinischen Landesmuseums Trier (Mainz am Rhein1977), pp.15-16, nos.4-6, pl.1.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Sidonian amber glass amphoriskos Circa 1st Century A.D.The ovoid body blown in a two-part mould, with a central band of scrolling, fluting above and below, with cylindrical neck and in-folded rim, the handles applied separately, 8cm highFootnotes:Provenance: Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 14 June 1996, lot 155. The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 018), acquired from the above sale.Cf. E. Marianne Stern, The Toledo Museum of Art, Roman Mold-blown Glass, the First through Sixth Centuries, Toledo, 1995, p.153, no.56 and N. Kunina, Ancient glass in the Hermitage Collection, The Hermitage Museum, 1997, no.140.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Roman pale amber glass octagonal amphoriskos Circa 1st Century A.D.The body blown into a two-part mould, the hexagonal bottle with octagonal sides composed of two concentric circles around a central boss, 6.4cm high Footnotes:Provenance:Private Collection, P.L.W. Arts. Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 26 April 2006, lot 146. The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 191), acquired from the above sale.Published:P.L. Wilhelmus Arts, A Collection of Ancient Glass, 500 BC-500 AD, Lochem, 2000, no.37.For a similarly decorated multi-sided bottle with twin handles, cf. E. Marianne Stern, Roman Mold-Blown Glass, The First Through Sixth Centuries, The Toledo Museum of Art (Toledo 1995), p.150, no.52. Ivo Fadić and Berislav Štefanac, Relief Glass. Mold-Blown Glass from Ancient Liburnia (Zadar 2017), pp.99-101, 198, no.62. The example in this lot is referred to in footnote 202 on p.101.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Roman royal blue glass hexagonal bottle Circa late 1st Century A.D.The tapered body blown into a two-part mould, with six panels framed by four horizontal ribs at the top and two horizontal ribs at the bottom, four of the panels decorated with floral scrolls, the two side panels with stylised palm fronds, with trailed handles, the shoulder decorated with six arches each framing three circular motifs, 9.1cm high Footnotes:Provenance:Private collection, USA, 1990.With Antiquarium, Ltd., New York. The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 242), acquired from the above on the 3 October 2009.Published:J. v.d. Groen & H. van Rossum, Romeins Glas uit Particulier Bezit, Utrecht, 2011, p.52.Exhibited:Thermenmuseum, Heerlen, NL, 'Romeins Glas uit Particulier Bezit', 29 April – 28 August 2011, exhibition no.93.Examples of hexagonal amphoriskoi, are more unusual among the corpus of early Syro-Palestinian small mould-blown bottles, for which four different variants have been identified. The vegetal scrolled decoration has similarities with vessels bearing Ennion's signature but it is not possible to say if they were produced in the same workshop. See E. Marianne Stern, Roman Mold-Blown Glass, The First Through Sixth Centuries, The Toledo Museum of Art (Toledo 1995), pp.156-7, no.63, and Ivo Fadić and Berislav Štefanac, Relief Glass. Mold-Blown Glass from Ancient Liburnia (Zadar 2017), pp.96-8, 197, no.61. The example in this lot is referred to in footnote 190 on p.97.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Loading...-
641361 item(s)/page