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An Egyptian mosaic glass fragment with Nilotic flowers, a Roman glass tile fragment with floral motifs, a mosaic glass bar and two fragments with double zig-zags 5 image 1
An Egyptian mosaic glass fragment with Nilotic flowers, a Roman glass tile fragment with floral motifs, a mosaic glass bar and two fragments with double zig-zags 5 image 2
An Egyptian mosaic glass fragment with Nilotic flowers, a Roman glass tile fragment with floral motifs, a mosaic glass bar and two fragments with double zig-zags 5 image 3
An Egyptian mosaic glass fragment with Nilotic flowers, a Roman glass tile fragment with floral motifs, a mosaic glass bar and two fragments with double zig-zags 5 image 4
An Egyptian mosaic glass fragment with Nilotic flowers, a Roman glass tile fragment with floral motifs, a mosaic glass bar and two fragments with double zig-zags 5 image 5
The Schefler Collection (Lots 68-110)
Lot 72*

An Egyptian mosaic glass fragment with Nilotic flowers, a Roman glass tile fragment with floral motifs, a mosaic glass bar and two fragments with double zig-zags
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4 December 2025, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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An Egyptian mosaic glass fragment with Nilotic flowers, a Roman glass tile fragment with floral motifs, a mosaic glass bar and two fragments with double zig-zags

Circa 1st Century B.C./A.D.
lotus flower inlay: 3.5cm x 2.1cm; tile fragment: 6.9cm x 4.1cm; bar: 3.7cm x 1.4cm; 2 x patterned inlays: approx 5mm x 14mm (5)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Ray Winfield Smith Collection. Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 20-21 November 1979, lot 433 (first item).
Harvey Rothenberg Collection, New York (first item).
Kofler-Truniger Collection; Ancient Glass Formerly the Kofler-Truniger Collection, Christie's London, 5-6 March, 1985, lot 240a (last three items).
The Benzian Collection. The Benzian Collection of Ancient and Islamic Glass, Sotheby's, London, 7 July 1994, lot 9.
Schefler Collection, New York, acquired at the above sale.

Exhibited:
Musée de Mariemont, Brussels, 8 May - 15 September 1954 (first item).
The Corning Museum of Glass, 4 June - 15 September 1957 (first item).
Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, 19 September - 13 September 1981 (glass bar).

Literature:
Catalogue des Verres Antiques de la Collection Ray Winfield Smith, exhibition catalogue, Mariemont 1954, p.77, no.64 (first item).
Glass from the Ancient World, exhibition catalogue, Corning 1957, no.119 (first item).
Ancient Glass. The Bomford Collection of Pre-Roman & Roman Glass on loan to The City of Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, 1976, p.24 (first item).
300 Jahre Glaskunst, exhibition catalogue, Lucerne, 1981, p.40, no.31 (glass bar).

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