Byzantine
A Byzantine pale blue-green glass stemmed goblet, Circa 5th - 6th century AD
Glass
Height: 9.5 cm
The funnel-shaped body with slightly concave sides, ornamented with applied opaque zig-zag trail in dark turquoise and aubergine. With a rounded and thickened rim. The vessel set on a slightly...
The funnel-shaped body with slightly concave sides, ornamented with applied opaque zig-zag trail in dark turquoise and aubergine. With a rounded and thickened rim. The vessel set on a slightly bulging stem with a flaring circular foot, the concave bottom with a pontil mark.
Condition
The vessel is intact with minor encrustation and iridescence and a stress crack to the bottom of the bowl near the join with the stem. There is a Nico Bijnsdorp collection label number 098 on the underside.
Condition
The vessel is intact with minor encrustation and iridescence and a stress crack to the bottom of the bowl near the join with the stem. There is a Nico Bijnsdorp collection label number 098 on the underside.
Provenance
Bonhams, London, 7 April 1998, lot 173With Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg, Germany (Kunst der Antike, catalogue 13, 2000, no. 188)
Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection, the Netherlands, acquired from the above