Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art

Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art

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A Polychrome Mosaic Glass Inlay, Egypt, circa 1st Century B.C./ 1st Century A.D.

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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