The Schefler Collection (Lots 68-110)
Lot 77*
A small shallow Roman mosaic glass dish with purple, white, yellow and green canes
4 December 2025, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£6,000 - £8,000
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A small shallow Roman mosaic glass dish with purple, white, yellow and green canes
Circa 1st Century B.C. - 1st half of the 1st Century A.D.
7.6cm diam
7.6cm diam
Footnotes
Provenance:
with Gawain McKinley, London.
Schefler Collection, New York, acquired from the above, 21 October 1985.
Composite mosaic dishes with carinated profiles are homogeneous in being composed of small unformed-sized sections of several different canes, with this belonging to a rarer group of smaller dishes or plates with diameters under 8cm, where diameters are more typically around 15cm (D.F. Grose, Early Ancient Glass. Core-Formed, Rod-Formed, and Cast Vessels and Objects from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Roman Empire, 1600 B.C. to A.D. 50, The Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, New York 1989, pp. 256-8, figs 144-5).
This shallow dish has purple canes with opaque white and yellow rings and peacock green centres and purple with white rods. For a similar example, likely from the same workshop, see Ancient Glass Formerly in the Kofler-Truniger Collection, Christie's, London, 5 & 6 March 1985, lot 176. For similar small dishes in the Kofler-Truniger Collection and with Hadji Baba Ancient Art, cf. R. Rütti, Jahre Glaskunst von der Antike bis zum Jugendstil, exhibition catalogue, Kunstmuseum Luzern, 1978, p. 63, no. 161 and Hadji Baba 1995, p. 6, no. 25 respectively.