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An Egyptian core-formed glass round-bottomed amphoriskos

Description : An Egyptian core-formed glass round-bottomed amphoriskos Late 18th - early 19th Dynasty, circa 1336-1290 B.C. Of dark blue glass, with an applied blue and white spiralled band below the uneven rim, the cylindrical neck tapering in gently towards the sloping shoulders, the elongated ovoid body with a rounded pointed base, the neck decorated with applied and marvered opaque light turquoise blue, opaque white and pale orange spiral trailing combed into a zig-zag pattern, drawn across the reserved shoulder and combed into feather patterns on the body, ending in a horizontal band around the lower body above the reserved base, with three applied pale blue glass vertical strap handles at the shoulder each decorated with pale orange trail, two handles restored, 4in (10cm) high, with enamelled light weathering
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About the lot N° 112
Title : An Egyptian core-formed glass round-bottomed amphoriskos
Notes : Provenance:Property of a private French lady, acquired before 1960. Accompanied by a French passport and a photograph of the amphoriskos with the owner.Literature:Egyptian glass production reached a peak during the 18th Dynasty, and especially during the reigns of Amenophis III and Akhenaten (c. 1390-1336 B.C.) who had glasshouses at Memphis and Amarna, cf. Aménophis III, le Pharaon-Soleil, (Paris 1993), pp. 324-39. Glass-making in Egypt continued into the 19th Dynasty, following the same basic forms and decorative styles as those produced in the late 18th Dynasty, while remaining a luxury item available only to the upper levels of society. The collapse of the industry in circa 1200 B.C. was probably a direct result of the economic decline following continual war and political instability throughout the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean. For a detailed discussion of this early period of Egyptian glass production in the Late Bronze Age cf. Birgit Schlick-Nolte, Die Glasgefässe im alten Ägypten (Berlin 1968).This three-handled round-bottomed amphoriskos is a rare survival from the late 18th or early 19th Dynasty (mid-14th to early 13th century B.C.). It belongs to Birgit Schlick-Nolte’s class IIIa and falls within her Werkkreis 4, which she placed in the period from the reigns of Tutankhamun to Ramesses II (c. 1336-1290 BC; ibid. pp. 114-123 passim., 163, pls XVII,13, 18; XIX,37,39; XX,1-2). Schlik-Nolte lists some twenty examples with two or three handles, as on this example, and which range in height from 5.4-4.0cm, although the taller examples she places within the earlier reign of Amenophis II (c. 1437-1411 B.C.). The closest parallels to this piece are six fragmentary examples in the British Museum. They are preserved in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities rather than the Egyptian Department as they were all found in the Eastern Mediterranean: five from Cyprus and one from Rhodes. All were found during late 19th Century excavations organized by the British Museum at Lalysos, Rhodes; Maroni (Zarukas), Hala Sultan Tekke (near Larnaka), and Enkomi (three examples), Cyprus, cf. D.B. Harden, Catalogue of Greek and Roman Glass in the British Museum. Vol. 1, Core- and Rod-Formed Vessels and Pendants and Mycenaean Cast Objects (London 1981), pp. 32-3, nos 1-6, pl. I, fig. 1. Barag noted in his study of Late Bronze Age core-formed glass in the Mediterranean that ‘a large number of … glass vessels are typical Egyptian products of the late 18th and 19th Dynasties. A few vessels are made in perfect Egyptian style but do not have published parallels from Egypt’, (A. von Saldern, A.L. Oppenheim, R.H. Brill and D. Barag, Glass and Glassmaking in Ancient Mesopotamia, (Corning 1970), p. 185.).Like this amphoriskos, Harden noted that the British Museum pieces ‘are all more heavily weathered than comparable pieces found in Egypt … an indication of the far more favourable atmospheric conditions, normally prevalent in Egyptian tombs’ (ibid. p. 32). The more heavily weathered surface, however, should not be regarded as an indication that this piece was not made in Egypt. Furthermore, weathered round-bottomed amphoriskoi have also been found in Egypt, including two excavated at Gurob by Sir Flinders Petrie. The first is in the British Museum (Nolte 1968, pp. 71-2) and the second with a damaged base is preserved in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, cf. Glass at Fitzwilliam Museum, (Cambridge 1978), pp. 14-15, no. 10.
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Sale date : 01 May 2008 It's free to register now to view!
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