The Schefler Collection (Lots 68-110)
Lot 105*
A clear glass rhyton with globular body and elongated curved funnel mouth
4 December 2025, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£2,000 - £3,000
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A clear glass rhyton with globular body and elongated curved funnel mouth
Late Roman - Byzantine or Islamic, circa 4th-5th Century A.D.
16cm long
16cm long
Footnotes
Provenance:
Kofler-Truniger Collection.
Ancient Glass Formerly the Kofler-Truniger Collection, Christie's, London, 5 March 1985, lot 62.
Schefler Collection, New York, acquired from the above sale.
Exhibited:
3000 Jahre Glaskunst von der Antike bis zum Jugendstil, Kunstmuseum, Luzern, 1978.
Published:
R.Rütti, 3000 Jahre Glaskunst von der Antike bis zum Jugendstil, exhibition catalogue, Kunstmuseum Luzern, 1978, p.102, no. 394.
Described as a "rhyton" dating to the 3rd to 4th Century A.D. when sold as part of The Kofler-Truniger Collection, 5 March 1985, lot 62, it had earlier been dated to 2nd to 3rd Century A.D. or Islamic by Beat Rütti in his entry in the exhibition catalogue, 3000 Jahre Glaskunst von der Antike bis zum Jugendstil, Luzern 1978, p, 102, no. 394. Another example in the Musée du Louvre, Paris, from Tiberias on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee was called a "guttus" and dated earlier to the 1st to early 2nd Century A.D. (V. Arveiller-Dulong, and M.-D. Nenna, Les verres antiques du Musée du Louvre. III. Parures, instruments et élements d'incrustation, Somogy éditions d'art, Paris, 2011, p. 197, pl. 41), while a third example in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, was catalogued as a medical implement from the Islamic period and the spout (unlikely) as a "knob handle" (J Israeli, Ancient Glass in the Israel Museum: The Eliahu Dobkin Collection and Other Gifts, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2003, p. 347, no. 548).