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Object NameFacet-cut Dish and Spoon

Made FromGlass

Date75-125

Place MadeRoman Empire; possibly Italy (b)

TechniqueProbably blown, wheel-cut, ground, polished, cast, tooled

Size(a) H: 5.3 cm, Diam: 22.4 cm; (b) L: 15.3 cm, W: 4.3 cm

Accession Number66.1.231

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

On ViewAncient Gallery

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

The faceted decoration of this dish and spoon was made by grinding and polishing. Faceted wares such as this were popular beginning in the late first century A.D.

Physical DescriptionFacet-Cut Dish and Spoon. Transparent light blue glass, (a) probably blown, wheel-cut, ground and polished. (a) Bowl: rim plain with rounded lip emphasized on inside by thinning of wall immediately below it; straight tapering side; base plain; wheel-cut decoration on outside of wall and underside of base; on wall: uppermost part has been thinned, leaving narrow cordon immediately below lip; below this, four horizontal rows of contiguous facets, making all-over pattern that fills three-quarters of wall with facets arranged in quincunx; facets are tall and narrow, those in top row being roughly oval with pointed bottom, those in second and third rows being hexagonal, and those in bottom row being hexagonal with rounded bottom; on underside: rosette with circular depression at center and fourteen petal-shaped facets with straight sides and rounded ends, which extend to edge of base; base plain. (b) Spoon: translucent blue glass; drawn, wheel-cut. Spoon shape; pointed oval bowl; slender circular-section handle, which rises steeply for 1.2 cm. and then continues at a much shallower angle as far as the tip, which is flattened and turned upward; decoration on underside of bowl: five contiguous rows of elongated hexagonal facets, parallel to the handle; outermost rows have three facets, the others four.
Provenance

Source Sergio Sangiorgi (Italian) - 1965-1966
Rome

Former Collection Giorgio Sangiorgi (Italian, 1886-1965)
Rome, before 1965.