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cup

Object NamePatella Cup

Made FromGlass

Date25 BCE-50 CE

Place MadeRoman Empire

Techniquecased, fused, mold-cast, ground, polished, applied

SizeOverall H: 4.4 cm, Diam: 10.4 cm

Accession Number97.1.17

Credit LineGift of Carl Berkowitz and Derek Content

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Not On View

Physical DescriptionWhite, yellow, and red opaque glass, light green and light blue translucent glass; canes formed by fusing cased and uncased rods, then broken into slices; slices probably assembled into disk and fused; disk probably heated and cast in or over mold, then ground and polished; foot ring applied. Bowl with double-convex profile and foot ring. Rim short and outsplayed, with rounded edge; wall has narrow upper bulge and broader lower bulge; base slightly convex, with applied foot ring. Vessel consists of slices of canes with at least four different patterns, each composed of cased and uncased rods: (1) one rod of white cased with red and yellow, surrounded by eight rods of yellow cased with purple, all cased with purple; (2) one rod of red cased with yellow, surrounded by eight rods of green cased with yellow; (3) one rod of white cased with purple, white, and purple; (4) one rod of white cased with red and yellow, surrounded by two concentric circles, each containing about eight rods of white cased with blue.
Provenance

Source Derek Content - 1976-01-01

Source Carl Sandler Berkowitz - 1976-01-01

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