Bulbous Bowl with 'Splashed' Decoration

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Bulbous Bowl with 'Splashed' Decoration

Place of OriginReportedly from Aleppo, Syria

Date1st century CE

DimensionsH: 2 3/8 in. (6 cm); Rim Diam: 2 15/16 in. (7.5 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown with applied decoration; wheel cut

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1951.376

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DescriptionMedium thick glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. Brownish-yellow with opaque yellow, opaque light blue and opaque red decoration; thick glass; hemispherical shape; rim ground flat; narrow groove on exterior below rim; wider groove around body; entire beaker decorated with glass chips, forming splatter effect. Translucent to transparent amber with opaque white, opaque grayish blue, opaque dark greenish yellow (near 10 Y 6/6), and opaque red. Translucent to transparent amber with opaque white, opaque grayish blue, opaque dark greenish yellow (near 10 Y 6/6), and opaque red. Medium thick glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. Free-blown. No pontil mark. Colored chips picked up, blown out with vessel and melted completely into surface. Cut. Rim ground. Bulbous walls. Base flattened. medium-sized and small colored flecks on body (diameter approximately 1.2 - 0.6 cm near rim and 0.1 - 0.5 cm near base). A shallow wheel-cut groove just below middle of body. CLASSIFICATION Isings 1957, Form 12

Published ReferencesGrose, David, "Ancient Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 20, no. 3, 1978, p. 78, repr fig. 14.

Grose, David F., "Innovation and Change in Ancient Technologies: The Anomalous Case of the Roman Glass Industry," in High-technology Ceramics, Westerville, OH, 1986, p. 77, fig. 16.

Stern, E. Marianne, "Roman Glassblowing in a Cultural Context," American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 103, no. 3, July 1999, p. 448, fig. 14, p. 450.