TRANPARENT ROMAN GLASS GRAPE BOTTLE

from
The Windmill Collection of Ancient Glass

Date: 3rd Century A.D. , Size: ↑13.2  cm     Ø  6.7 cm  , Weight: 75 Gr.

Classification: Stern (1995),  MCT VII, Stylized Grape Bottle, Series A Condition: In perfect condition

Description: Yellowish transparent bottle blown into a three-part mold: two vertical ones for the body and one for the bottom. The oval belly has (in a stylized pattern) ten horizontal rows of grapes, the top rows broken on two sides by a rudimentary grape leaf without veins. The vertical mold seam has also been concealed here. Three narrow (higher) circles are made in the flat bottom, a pontil mark is visible in the middle. The cylindrical neck is blown free and slightly pinched at the bottom near the overflowing collar edge of the mold. The top edge is folded outwards, up and then inwards again

Acquired: 8 October 2004 Archeological Center, Jaffa

Provenance: 2004 Mordechai Artzyeli collection Tel-Aviv (Isr.)

Published: 2016 Vind Magazine (nr.23) September, page 26 2004 Archeological Center, Jaffa, auction 33, lot 110

Remark: Since the invention of glass in the centuries before Christ. bottles in the shape of fruit are known, as evidenced by excavations in Cyprus and Egypt, among others. They are mainly bottles in the shape of a pomegranate, a fruit that was popular in the Middle East. This type of fruit (with a large amount of red seeds) was a symbol of passion and fertility in ancient times. From the 1st century onwards, fruit-shaped bottles were popular in the Syrian-Palestinian area. Especially the date and grape.

Refences: Antikenmuseum Berlin (Platz-Horster, nr.64); The Toledo Museum of Art, U.S.A,    coll.nr. 1923.1225.

DISK-FOOTED ROMAN GLASS JUG

DISK-FOOTED JUG from the Collection of Hans van Rossum

Date: 4th century A.D. | Eastern Mediterranean Size: ↑17.0 cm | ø 6.0 cm (foot) | Weight 134 g

Technique: Free blown, handle, foot and coil applied; tooled

Condition: Intact and clear, perfect condition

Description: Clear yellow glass, conical body, sloping shoulder, cylindrical neck. Mouth with trefoil lip, covered with dark green glass coil. Massive angular handle of dark green glass coil, applied to the shoulder, attached to edge of rim, folded in a thumb-rest.  Disk-footed base, rest of pontil.

Provenance: Acquired from the Collection C.A. Hessing, Laren (NL) on the 25 May 1998, coll. no. 15, With Sheppard & Cooper Ltd. London, 1994

Published: Romeins Glas uit particulier bezit, J. van der Groen & H. van Rossum 2011, p. 58

Exhibited: Thermenmuseum Heerlen (NL), Romeins Glas, geleend uit particulier bezit, exp. no. 76, 29 April – 28 August 2011 Museum Simon van Gijn Dordrecht (NL), February 2004

References: Christie’s New York, auction 12 April 2016 lot no. 98, Vetri a Roma, M. Cima & M.A. Tomei 2012 no. 154, RMO Museum Leiden inv. no. J1914/11.2, Sotheby’s New York, auction 13 June 1996 lot 158 (almost an identical shape of the body and a similar foot), Glas der Antike, Kestner Museum Hannover, U. Liepmann 1982 no. 126, Gläser der Antike, Sammlung Oppenländer, A. von Salden & B. Nolte 1974 no. 683, sold in 2003 by his son Gert Oppenländer to the Paul Getty Museum USA

ROMAN GLASS FOOTED JUGLET

FOOTED JUGLET from the Collection of Hans van Rossum

Date: 4th century A.D. | Eastern Mediterranean Size:↑10.8 cm | ø 5.0 cm | Weight 72 g

Technique: Free blown; handle, foot and coil applied; tooled

Classification: Kisa 1908: Band II, nr. 8, p. 317 for the type of the handles

Condition: Intact, perfect condition

Description: Transparent pale amber glass, ovoid body with almost horizontal shoulders. Cylindrical neck, wide mouth, rim folded outward. Base applied and tooled to form a hollow tubular base ring, pontil mark. Handle of turquoise colored glass, applied on the shoulder, drawn up and attached to edge of rim. Coil ring of turquoise glass encircling the neck and underside rim.

Provenance: Acquired from the Collection C.A. Hessing, Laren (NL) on the 26 October 1998 coll. no. 85 With Kunsthandel Aalderink, Amsterdam 1992

References: Christie’s New York, auction 9 December 1999, lot 467, Archaeological Center Tel Aviv, auction 15, 10 October 1995, lot 114

VENETIAN GLASS GOBLET

E-135 of The Allaire Collection

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This goblet’s design illustrates the resurgence in the late 19^th & 20^th C. of Venetian glass blowing which can be traced back more than a thousand years. This glass is of straw color with bowl of rounded body flaring to 8 straight panels at top.  The base of the bowl here has been decorated with 8 thin aqua trails ending in small knops. The solid stem is attached to those small knops which has a swirled knop that ends in a flattened foot. The technical mastery and innovative styling are hallmarks of Venetian blown glass of the late 1800s.

Date: Late 1800’s -Early 1900’s, Height: 13 cm., Weight: 120 g. Presumably made in Venice by Salviati & Co.

ROMAN GLASS INKWELL

NBB 014 INKWELL of Nico F. Bijnsdorp

Date/Origin/Dimensions/Weight

1st century AD. Eastern Mediterranean, perhaps Syro-Palestinian.

H: 4.8 cm. D max: 5.9 cm. D rim: 5.9 cm. D base: 4.5 cm. Weight: 74 gr.

Condition: Intact. Stress crack underneath handle. Technique: Free blown. Handle applied.

Description: Transparent natural olive green glass. Small cylindrical container with straight walls, tapering downward and with agently domed mouth with circular opening and rounded lip. Cut-out hollowtubular flange at the junction of shoulder and body and another one at the junction of the body and the concave base. Pontil mark. A bifurcated handledropped on the lower body, looped upward and attached to upper body.

Acquired13 December 1995, Christie’s London.

Remarks: In his article “WRITE OR LIGHT? ROMAN GLASS INKWELLS AND LAMPS” Chris Lightfoot discusses the fact that a pyxis is sometimes called a lamp or inkwell. An inkwell would need a domed top with narrow opening for filling, dipping the stylus into the ink and removing excess ink from the stylus. The narrow opening limits the risk of accidental spillage and rapid evaporation of the ink. A lamp would need a second hole or nozzle for the wick. Although a few glass lamps from early Roman times are known, the vast majority was introduced in the late Roman period. Lacking above mentioned requirements for either inkwell or lamp, the vessel is called a (lidded) pyxis, a small jar that contains any number of liquids, creams or salves.

Published

Christie’s 13 December 1995, No. 31.

Exhibited

Thermenmuseum Heerlen (NL), “Romeins glas uit particulier bezit”, 29 April – 28 August 2011. Exhibition No. 220.

References: Wight 2011, The J. Paul Getty Museum, No. 92, Acc. No. 2003.378 (remarks). Arveiller-Dulong & Nenna 2005, The Louvre Museum, No. 752. Saldern et al. 1974, The Erwin Oppenländer Collection, Nos. 571-572 (remarks). Kunina 1997, The Hermitage Collection, No. 382. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Acc. No. 2003.453 (ex Oppenländer No. 725).

ROMAN GLASS POMEGRANATE-SHAPED SPRINKLER

POMEGRANATE-SHAPED SPRINKLER of Hans van Rossum

First half of 4th century A.D. | Eastern Mediterranean, Syria Size↑9.7 cm | ø 6.6 cm | Weight 76 g

Technique: Free blown, pinched ribs and toes; coil applied

Condition: Intact and clear, perfect condition

Description:Transparent pale amber glass, squat globular body with five vertical ribs, made by pinching and topped by tooled knobs. Base with five similar pinched glass ‘toes’, no pontil mark. A broad splayed lip with in-folded rim, beneath with a turquoise transparent trail of glass which was added as a highlight. Like all sprinkler flasks this specimen has a tooled diaphragm with a hole at the base of the neck.

Remark: The pinched ribs and small ring of pinched toes forming the base of these vessels evoke pomegranates, visible by turning them. The popularity of pomegranate-shaped sprinklers may have been inspired by the fruit’s symbolic associations with beauty and fertility.

Provenance: Acquired from the Collection C.A. Hessing, Laren (NL) on the 25 May 1998, coll. number 33 With Kunsthandel Aalderink, Amsterdam, 1993

Published: Antiek Glas, de Kunst van het Vuur, R. van Beek no. 68, ill. 7

Exhibited: Thermenmuseum Heerlen (NL), Romeins Glas, geleend uit particulier bezit, exp. no. 128, 29 April – 28 August 2011 Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam (NL), de Kunst van het Vuur, exp. no. 68, 17 May – 16 September 2001

References: Vom Luxusobjekt zum Gebrauchs-gefäβ, M. Honroth 2007 La fragilitat en el temps. El vidre a l’antiguitat, T.C. Rossell 2005 no. 89 Roman, Byzantine and Early Medieval Glass – Ernesto Wolf Collection, E.M. Stern 2001 no. 136, Solid Liquid, Fortuna Fine Arts Ltd. 1999 no. 194, Ancient Glass at the Newark Museum, S.H. Auth 1976 no. 149, inv. no. 50.1502