bowl

Object NameLace Mosaic Bowl

Made FromGlass

Date225-100 BCE

Place MadeRoman Empire; Italy

TechniqueMosaic glass technique, ground, fire-polished

SizeOverall H: 7.4 cm, Diam (max): 14.2 cm

Accession Number66.1.235

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Exhibitions

Flowers Which Clothe the Meadows

On ViewAncient Gallery

Physical DescriptionColorless glass rods, spirally wound with opaque yellow, bubbly matrix with patches of silvery iridescence inside and out, rim finished with colorless rod spirally wound with deep blue glass trail; mosaic glass technique, polished by rotary grinding. Nearly hemispherical bowl shaped by fusing 51 lengths of spirally twisted glass in or over a mold and evening the rim area by application of a horizontal trail of colorless glass with a blue spirally wound trail; evidence of rotary grinding on unweathered sections of interior, exterior may have been ground and fire-polished.
Provenance

Source Sergio Sangiorgi (Italian) - 1966

Former Collection Giorgio Sangiorgi (Italian, 1886-1965)