A Byzantine pale blue-green glass stemmed goblet
Circa 5th-6th Century A.D.
9.5cm high
Footnotes:
Provenance:
Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 7 April 1998, lot 173.
with Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg, Germany (Kunst der Antike, catalogue 13, 2000, no. 188).
The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 098), acquired from the above on the 19 January 2000.

Exhibited:
Thermenmuseum, Heerlen, NL, 'Romeins Glas uit Particulier Bezit', 29 April – 28 August 2011, exhibition no. 61.

This goblet is a rare example of the type, which belongs to the wider group of Byzantine vessels which are decorated with turquoise trailing.
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The goblet appears to be intact, with no visible repair or restoration. There is a horizontal stable strain crack which runs around halfway around the body, just above the stem. With minor surface wear overall. With silvery iridescence on the body and foot, and some patches of brown encrustation on the applied turquoise thread.

The dark turquoise trailing has brick red streaks.

With a Bijnsdorp collection sticker on the underside, '098'.