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bowl

Object NameBowl

Made FromGlass

Date450-330 BCE

Place MadePersia

Techniquecast, wheel-cut decoration

SizeOverall H: 7 cm; Rim Diam: 13.8 cm

Accession Number59.1.67

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Exhibitions

Fire and Vine: The Story of Glass and Wine

A Tribute to Persia

Glass from the Ancient World

Verres Antiques de la Collection R.W. Smith

On ViewGather Gallery

Physical DescriptionColorless glass with slight greenish tinge, patches of thin white iridescent film over surface; cast with wheel-cut decoration. Ground rim flares up and out from wide relief-cut bands on shoulder, vessel wall spreads out below shoulder before curving in and down to form deep body, exterior is decorated with a large rosette consisting of forty-five flutes with rounded tops; each flute is relief-cut and concave in cross section, all radiate from a simple lathe-cut groove (D: 3.5 cm) with a small centering hole, the flutes terminate slightly below the relief-cut groove on the shoulder.
Provenance

Source Ray Winfield Smith (American, 1897-1982) - 1959-07-27

Former Collection Ohly - 1940-06-05
Purchased at Sotheby's London 1940-06-05, lot 145

Former Collection George Eumorfopoulous (British, 1863-1939) - 1940-06-05
Sold at Sotheby's London 1940-06-05, lot 145