An Egyptian core-formed glass kohl bottle
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, circa 1550-1320 B.C.
In the form of a palm column, dark blue in colour decorated with a white trail around the lip, the edge of the palm, and in a spiral around the neck, the lower half with an applied white marvered thread tooled into a feather pattern, set on a small circular foot, 5¾in (14.5cm) high
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, circa 1550-1320 B.C.
In the form of a palm column, dark blue in colour decorated with a white trail around the lip, the edge of the palm, and in a spiral around the neck, the lower half with an applied white marvered thread tooled into a feather pattern, set on a small circular foot, 5¾in (14.5cm) high
Estimate:
£15,000 - 20,000
US$ 23,000 - 30,000
€18,000 - 23,000
US$ 23,000 - 30,000
€18,000 - 23,000
Footnotes
Provenance:
Collection of Madame Kismet Pilati, acquired in Vienna and London in 1976.
Literature:
For another flask with similar circular foot and tooled feather pattern decorating the lower section of the column shaft, cf. S. M. Goldstein, Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, New York, 1979, p.58, no.22. This palm column kohl bottle displays a similar surface, in common with the three examples in the Corning Museum, op. cit., p.59, no. 23 and 24, but is slightly larger in size.
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