Amber Glass Bowl
Amber Glass Bowl
ATQ.000001
Antiquity
ca. 1st Century BC
Eastern Mediterranean
N/A
Glass
5.125 × 2.5 in. (13 × 6.4 cm)
On View in The History of the Bible, Earliest Writings
Amber glass bowl apparently made using the slumping technique, in which the bowl is formed around a mold with only the inside ever touching the mold. The rim is decorated with two linear-cut concentric circles. These bowls were widely exported across the Eastern Mediterranean over a period of about 100 years.
Created in the first century BC. Acquired by Mathias Komor (1909–1984), New York.[1] Acquired in 1960 by a Japanese dealer named Yamaoka, Japan; Acquired by a private collector, thence by descent; Purchased at auction in 2016 by Green Collection, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma;[2] Donated in 2018 to The Signatry, Overland Park, Kansas, under the curatorial care of Museum of the Bible, Washington, DC.
Notes: [1] 1909–1984. Dealer and collector in Chinese antiquities. His family dealt in Chinese antiquities for approximately 100 years. Some of his photograph records are in the Special Collections of the Getty. There was no photograph of this bowl found in that archive. [2] Sold at Christies, New York, Antiquities October 25, 2016, Lot 134.
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