EGYPTIAN GLASS INLAYS WITH NEKHBET AND URAEI
INLAYS WITH NEKHBET AND URAEI
From Nico F. Bijnsdorp
Date/Origin/Dimensions/Weight
Date: 2nd – 1st century BC. Egyptian, Ptolemaic.
Uraei: H: 0.8 cm. W: 0.3 cm. (top picture), Nekhbet: H: 1.8 cm. W: 1.9 cm. (bottom picture)
Condition: Intact. Excellent preservation. Technique:Composed from mosaic canes.
Description:
Nekhbet: Mosaic slice of glass on a dark-blue matrix (appearing black) with the vulture goddess Nekhbet, facing right with outstretched wings. Yellow head and neck with black eye, orange beak and white crown. Body in opaque red, grey, white, yellow, green and pale blue with white streaks. Wings in opaque red, green and blue, all with opaque white streaks. Legs and feet in opaque white, blue, green and red with white streaks.
Uraei:Mosaic slices of glass on a pale blue matrix. Bodies in opaque yellow, pale and dark blue and red with black details. A red crown above the heads.
Acquired:
7 July 2016, from David G. Giles, London, UK.
Remarks:
(1) The goddess Nekhbet is often represented as a vulture with outstretched wings, flying above the head of the pharaoh, thus protecting him from his enemies. She is also known as the goddess of childbirth, mothers and children. She is associated with the protection of Upper Egypt and wears the white crown of Upper Egypt.
(2) The uraeus is a head-ornament of the goddess Wadjet, depicted as a rearing cobra, symbol of sovereignty, royalty and divine authority. She is the protector of Lower Egypt (Nile Delta).
(3) At the time of the unification of Egypt, the images of Nekhbet and Wadjet would encircle the crown of the pharaohs who ruled the unified Egypt. The three inlays shown here are a good representation of the unified Egypt.
Provenance Nekhbet:
Ex David and Jennifer Giles Collection, London, UK.
Ex Japanese Collection “T”, Tokyo, 1990’s.
Provenance Uraei:
Ex David and Jennifer Giles Collection, London, UK.
Ex Collection Robin Symes, London, UK, between 1970’s and 1990’s.
References:
Christie’s 7 July 1993, The “Per-Neb” Collection, No. 96
QUADRUPLE GLASS BALSAMARIUM with BONE APPLICATOR
Quadruple Balsamarium with Bone Applicator of Hans van Rossum
Early 4th century A.D. | said to be found in Jericho (PA), Size↑ 9.5 cm | ø 3.5 cm | Weight 98 g
Technique:Free blown, tooled, Condition: Perfect condition; intact
Description: Four tubes, blown from green glass; rim folded outward, flattened base; no pontil. Upper part of the tubes covered with earth residue. Intensive and colorful iridescence. Very slightly visible are the remnants of the original very thin thread decoration on some of the tubes. Including an applicator, cut from bone and said to be original part of the glass object.
Remarks: This quadruple balsamarium is undoubtedly the predecessor of the more common double balsamaria as are known. A very simple implementation without handles or impressive decoration. An exceedingly rare glass object and so is the bone applicator.
Provenance: Emad Barakat Antiquities, Jerusalem, 27 December 2022, inv. no. Si 445; authorized antiquities dealer; license no. 272
References: Not any reference or parallel could be found
SMALL ROMAN GLASS BEAKER
Small Beaker of Joop van der Groen
Roman Empire, possibly Cyprus Date: Probably 2nd century – or 3th century A.D
Size:↑ 4,7 cm; Ø max. 6,6 cm; Ø rim 6,1 cm; W: 28 G.
Technique: Free blown, tooled Classification: Vessberg (1952) type PL. IV nr. 29
Description: Transparent ligh-blue glass. Body with numerous bubbles. Base slightly indented; with rest of a circular pontil-mark. The somewhat thickened rim is nicely rounded.
Condition: Intact with some iridescence
Provenance: 2003 Ancient Art Gallery Stormbroek, Eindhoven (Netherlands), 2002 Private collection, Trier (Germany)
CAST MOSAIC PATELLA ROMAN GLASS CUP
NFB 165 CAST MOSAIC PATELLA CUP
From Nico F. Bijnsdorp
Date/Origin/Dimensions/Weight
Late 1st century BC – early 1st century AD. Italian or Eastern Mediterranean.
H: 4.5 cm. D rim: 8.8 cm. D base: 4.0 cm. Weight: 76 gr.
Classification
Isings 1957: Form 2., Grose 1989: Family IV., Goethert-Polaschek 1977: Form 17.
Condition: Intact. Some weathering to the surface.
Technique: Assembled from sections of mosaic canes and cast. Base-ring applied.
Description: Mosaic glass with translucent emerald, green matrix and canes from (opaque) red, yellow, green and amethyst glass.Small carinated bowl. Near horizontal rim with rounded edge. Carinated side with two convex curves. Underside of bottom convex. Outsplayed base ring with rounded edge. Mosaic pattern formed from sections of a round composite mosaic bar with an opaque white center encased in opaque red, surrounded by nine overlay canes of opaque yellow encased in opaque white, the total surrounded by a thick layer of translucent emerald green glass. A second bar in cut sections of opaque white, red and yellow in an emerald green setting positioned at random in the vessel’s (mainly upper) wall. Applied base-ring made from a coil of amethyst translucent glass.
Acquired: 8 June 2004, Christie’s New York.
Provenance: American private collection, 1970’s.
Remarks:
(1) Sections of mosaic glass bars were assembled and fused to form a disk-shaped blank.
This blank was then placed onto a convex formed mold in the shape of the desired bowl.
The glass sagged under its own weight and was further shaped by tooling and/or by
pressing an outer mold onto it. The foot was separately drawn from a hot glass cone and
applied to the bottom of the vessel.
(2) There are two more patella cups in the collection: NFB 041 and NFB190.
Published:Christies 8 June 2004, No. 14., Fortuna Fine Arts 1999, Solid Liquid, No. 42.
Exhibited: Thermenmuseum Heerlen (NL), “Romeins glas uit particulier bezit”, 29 April – 28 August 2011. Exhibition No. 02.
References: Bianchi 2002, Borowski Collection, Nos. V38-39.,Grose 1989, Toledo Museum, Nos. 508-519.,Stern & Schlick-Nolte 1994, The Ernesto Wolf Collection, Nos. 100-101., Goldstein 1979, The Corning Museum, Nos. 491-492.,Christie’s 5/6 March 1985, The Kofler-Truniger Collection, No. 179.Kunina 1997, The Hermitage Collection, No. 87
GLASS VESSELS IN SHAPE OF SHELLS
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Glass Vessels in Shape Of Shells Found in Various Museums
The scallop shell motif can be found on glass dishes, bowls, beakers and flasks from Roman times to the present. They were made by the Romans in the Rhineland during the 1st to 4th centuries and were copied at Murano in the 16th-17th centuries. Technique used was mold blowing.
Romishch-Germanisches Museum 3rd to 4th C.
Romishch-Germanisches Museum 3rd to 4th C.
The State Hermitage Museum, 1st C.AD H: 8.5cm
British Museum D: 1st C. H: 8.5 cm
Toledo Museum of Art D:16th C. H: 24.8 cm
Chrysler Museum of Art D: 3rd-4th C.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Roman 1st-4th C.
Frog by John Nygren
This is a glass frog made by the contemporary artist John Nygren. John is a senior member of the North Carolina glass art community and a renowned American master. Throughout his 40 year career, love of nature and the environment have been persistent themes. His glass works range from landscape vessels, classic vase forms with delicately wrought natural elements, to whimsical frogs. Follow this link to the artist web site. http://www.johnnygren.com/about.html
H: 6 inches
1983
7C John Nygren’s Frog
7C John Nygren’s Frog
SMALL GLASS SPANISH POCKET TUMBLERS
Many interesting glass pocket tumblers were made in Spain from the early-17th though the late-18th century. Pocket tumbler are vessel carried by a traveler in a pouch or pocket for drinking. These tumblers were blown and flattened into an oval shape some with rounded corners or a “stadium” and decorated with many different styles. Some of these vessels have two small handles on the sides.
This post is a pictorial of some glass pocket tumblers found in various collection.
SMALL GLASS POCKET TUMBLER WITH WHITE TRAILING
30E Small Glass Pocket Tumbler with White Trailing
in the Allaire Collection
Height:7.3 cm Date: 18 century Culture: probably Spanish
This pocket tumbler is a golden honey color with thin white trailing. This piece is unusual because of its color, type of trailing and its small size. A glass pocket tumbler was carried by a traveler in a pouch or pocket and used for drinking. Its shape is that of a rectangle with rounded corners or a “stadium”. A large number of pocket tumblers were made in Spain from the early-17th though the late-18th century.
A parallel object to 30E can be found at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (below)
Ancient Glass Blog of The Allaire Collection 
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