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Lot 84
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
