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An Egyptian colourless glass dish engraved with fish image 1
An Egyptian colourless glass dish engraved with fish image 2
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Lot 81

An Egyptian colourless glass dish engraved with fish

3 July 2025, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£10,000 - £15,000

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An Egyptian colourless glass dish engraved with fish

Possibly Alexandria, circa late 2nd-early 3rd Century A.D.
18cm diam.

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Provenance:
Günter Grimm (1940-2010) collection, acquired in 1973.
Anonymous sale; Pierre Bergé & Associés, Paris, 1 June 2012, lot 135.
Property from a Princely Collection, acquired at the above sale.

For a fragment from a bowl also depicting a similar fish see D. Whitehouse, Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Vol., Corning, 1997, p.245-255, no.417. Elsewhere in the book Whitehouse quotes other academics who report glass of this type was made in Alexandria (p.222).

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