This is the rating and price for A Colorless Engraved Glass Vase, probably Egypt, 4th/5th Century A.D, with concave base, pear-shaped body, flaring neck, and ground rim, the body with a wheel-engraved horizontal latticework frieze framed above and below with fine wheel- engraved

Description : A Colorless Engraved Glass Vase, probably Egypt, 4th/5th Century A.D, with concave base, pear-shaped body, flaring neck, and ground rim, the body with a wheel-engraved horizontal latticework frieze framed above and below with fine wheel- engraved lines, two large bunches ofgrapes hang from the frieze, festoons between the grapes, the lower part of the body and the funnel-shaped neck with fine wheel- engravedlines. Height 22.9cm Provenance.. James Bomford CollectionSothebys, London, July 3rd- 4th, 1978, no. 58, illus.) Benzian CollectionSothebys, London, The Benzian Collection of ancient and Islamic Glass, July 7th, 1994, no. 143, illus.) Exhibited., Kunst museum, Lucerne, July 19th-September 13th, 1981 Published.. 3000jahreGlaskunst, Lucerne, 1981, p. 95, no. 348 For a discussion of this type of glass, see Gladys Davidson Weinberg, "A Parallel to the Highdown Hill Glass," Journal of Glass Studies, vol. 5, Corning, 1963 pp. 24-28
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