cane

Object Name55 Twisted Rods

Made FromGlass

Date25 BCE-99 CE

Place Madeprobably Rome

TechniqueTooled, trail-decorated

SizeLarge Rod L: 14.2 cm, Diam: 0.8 cm; other fragments vary from L: 9 cm-0.7 cm, Diam: 8.5 cm-0.5 cm

Accession Number76.1.59

Credit LineGift of Carl Berkowitz and Derek Content

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Not On View

Physical DescriptionRods of translucent deep blue, translucent amethyst, translucent light green, translucent yellow-green, opaque white and translucent bluish-green, spirally twisted trails of opaque white, opaque yellow, and green; tooled and trail-decorated. Fragments preserve a wide assortment of cane diameters and lengths with spiral decorations including thick wide trails on amethyst in blue matrix as well as yellow and green trails on colorless glass matrices; one large translucent colorless glass rod with a greenish tinge may be a spindle whirl attachment, one colorless rod with slight greenish tinge preserves a wide flat end, probably the end of a spoon, a thick greenish-yellow rod lightly twisted may be an unfinished segment.
Provenance

Source Derek Content - 1976-01-01

Source Carl Sandler Berkowitz - 1976-01-01

Former Collection Ray Winfield Smith (American, 1897-1982)

Former Collection Gutmann Collection
Probably Guttmann