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A Roman shallow mosaic glass bowl of opaque blue, white and translucent amber glass image 1
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The Schefler Collection (Lots 68-110)
Lot 78*

A Roman shallow mosaic glass bowl of opaque blue, white and translucent amber glass

4 December 2025, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£6,000 - £8,000

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A Roman shallow mosaic glass bowl of opaque blue, white and translucent amber glass

Circa 1st Century B.C. - first half of the 1st Century A.D.
8.6cm diam

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Provenance:
with Marvin Kagan Art, Inc., New York.
Schefler Collection, New York, acquired from the above, 9 November 1987.

This bowl belongs to a group of thick-walled mosaic hemispherical and segmental bowls that are formed from slices of larger canes, arranged without the need of a containing reticelli ring and slumped over a former mould.

For a similarly coarse-surfaced mosaic bowl in translucent emerald green glass with opaque yellow and red canes, see S. Goldstein, Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass, in The Corning Museum of Glass, New York, 1979, p. 180, Fig. 467.

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