Fluted Bowl
Fluted Bowl
Place of OriginProbably Syro-Palestinian region
DateMid-second to early first century BCE
DimensionsH: 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm); W: 4 9/16 in. (11.6 cm); D: 3/16 in. (0.4 cm)
MediumProbably sagged; rotary-polished on the interior, the top, and the outside of the rim; cut on the exterior.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1071
On View
Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 02, Classic
Collections
Published ReferencesRiefstahl, Rudolph M., "Ancient and Near Eastern Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News 4, no. 2, 1961, p. 33, ill.
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Weinberg, Gladys Davidson, "Hellenistic Glass Vessels from the Athenian Agora," Hesperia 30, 1961, p. 386, pl. 93,c (former TMA acc. no. 354-732 cited).
Riefstahl, Rudolph M., "The Complexities of Ancient Glass," Apollo 86, 1967, p. 429, fig. 2.
The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, p. 20, ill.
Grose, David F., "Ancient Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News 20, no. 3, 1978, p. 75, fig. 10.
Grose, David F., "The Syro-Palestinian Glass Industry in the Later Hellenistic Period," MUSE 13, 1979, pp. 56 and 60.
Grose, David F., "The Origins and Early History of Glass," in The History of Glass, eds. Dan Klein and Ward Lloyd, London, 1984, p. 21, ill.
Grose, David F., Early Ancient Glass: Core-Formed, Rod-Formed, and Cast Vessels and Objects from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Roman Empire, 1600 B. C. to A. D. 50, New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, 1989, cat. no. 211, p. 204, ill. p. 411.
Label TextToday we are so surrounded by mass-produced glass vessels that we rarely think of glass as a luxury item. When this item was made, however, it would have been the equivalent of a fine crystal goblet. Its production was incredibly labor-intensive. First, the basic shape would have been made by heating glass until it sagged over a bowl-shaped form in a furnace. Next, the interior would have been rotary polished. Finally, the pattern of horizontal bands and vertical flutes would have been cut using an abrasive wheel, much like how cut crystal is made today.
Late first century BCE to mid-first century CE
Late first century BCE to mid-first century CE
Late first century BCE to mid-first century CE
Late first century BCE to mid-first century CE
Mid-second to early first century BCE
Mid-second to early first century BCE
Mid-second to early first century BCE
Late first century BCE to mid-first century CE
Mid-second to early first century BCE
Late first century BCE to mid-first century CE
Mid-second to early first century BCE
Late first century BCE to mid-first century CE
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