Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
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Lot Closed
July 7, 04:21 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A Polychrome Mosaic Glass Inlay
Egypt, circa 1st Century B.C./ 1st Century A.D.
made in two halves, decorated with the theater mask of a woman with curled hair with and long beaded ringlets at the sides, and wearing a fillet of beads and ribbons.
3.5 by 3 cm.
Joseph Klein collection, New York, formed between 1941 and 1980 (Bonhams, London, October 24th, 2012, no. 21, illus.)
acquired by the present owner at the above sale
For Joseph Klein (1899-1987), his escape from Nazi-occupied France, and his subsequent interesting and successful life and career in New York City see Bonhams, op. cit. pp. 4 and 5.
For two closely related inlays see E. Marianne Stern and B. Schlick-Nolte, Early Glass of the Ancient World, 1600 B.C.-A.D. 50: Ernesto Wolf Collection, Ostfildern, 1994, nos. 127-8.
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