摘要

This article presents three different glass vessels, two of which have never before been published. The first is an eastern Mediterranean core-formed alabastron from the Enrico Caruso Collection that is now in the Saint Louis Art Museum. It appears to be the only surviving glass vessel that was repaired while being fabricated in antiquity. The second vessel is a Roman storage jar in the collection of the Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. This object had been broken and was repaired in the late 1970s or early 1980s. An examination of the surface shows drilled holes that suggest the piece may have been repaired much earlier in its life.
Finally, there is a shallow gold-glass bowl, also in the Saint Louis Art Museum, that evokes a Sasanian or Islamic style. In fact, the piece is part of a group that seems to have been fabricated in Iran in the 1970s, and some of the objects in this group, including this bowl, were abraded or chemically treated to give the appearance of antiquity. These modern forgeries have made a new entrance into the market after a 40-year hiatus.

  • 出版日期2015