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The Resandro Collection of Ancient Art (Lots 14-49)
Lot 49*

A Roman mosaic glass spindle whorl

22 November – 9 December 2024, 12:00 GMT
Online, London, New Bond Street

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A Roman mosaic glass spindle whorl

Probaby Egypt, circa 1st Century B.C.-1st Century A.D.
4.3cm diam.

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Provenance:
Sheldon and Barbara Breitbart collection, New York and Arizona.
The Breitbart Collection of Antiquities and Ancient Glass; Sotheby's, New York, 20 June 1990, lot 74.
Resandro collection, Europe, acquired at the above sale (R-720).

Published:
I. Grimm-Stadelmann (ed.), Aesthetic Glimpses, Masterpieces of Ancient Egyptian Art, The Resandro Collection, Munich, 2012, p.221, no. R-720.

The black matrix is decorated with an intricate and delicate foliate design in red, green and yellow; for the design, see S.M. Goldstein, Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in the The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, 1975, pl. 25, no. 485.

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