bowl

Object NameRibbed Bowl

Made FromGlass

Dateabout 1-75

TechniqueCast mosaic glass, tooled, cut, ground, polished

SizeOverall H: 5.2 cm, Diam (max): 17.4 cm

Accession Number79.1.49

Credit LineBequest of Jerome Strauss

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Exhibitions

Drinking Glasses Through the Ages

Place Made

Roman Empire; possibly Italy

Physical DescriptionLarge canes with opaque white spiral in transparent amber matrix; blank cast by mosaic glass technique; ribbing tooled; sagged over mold; rim ground; interior lathe-cut; interior and upper part of exterior rotary-polished; rest of exterior fire polished. Shallow open bowl; bottom slightly hollowed. Twenty-six ribs on exterior running from below rim to near center of bottom. Lathe-cut ring, D: 1.1 cm., at center of interior, surrounded by band of three concentric curls, D: 8.7 cm.; immediately below interior of rim, lathe-cut groove.
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