Ribbed Bowl
Ribbed Bowl
Place of OriginProbably Italy
DateLate first century BCE to mid-first century CE
DimensionsH: 5.5 cm; Diam: 18.1 cm; Thickness: 0.5 cm
MediumGlass; sagged; rotary-polished on the interior, the top, and the outside of the rim and across the upper ends of the ribs; fire-polished on the rest of the exterior; cut on the interior.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.674
Not on View
DescriptionBroad, shallow ribbed bowl. Golden-brown. Upright rim with almost flat edge, sloping obliquely to the outside; convex curving side; slightly concave bottom. On the interior: four narrow horizontal grooves: one just below the edge of the rim, two in a band at the junction of the side and bottom, and a small circular groove at the center of the bottom; On the exterior: twenty pronounced ribs set almost vertically on the body; the ribs end beyond the junction of the side and bottom.
DESCRIPTION Broad, shallow ribbed bowl. Upright rim with almost flat edge, sloping obliquely to the outside; convex curving side; slightly concave bottom. On the interior, four narrow horizontal grooves: one just below the edge of the rim, two in a band at the junction of the side and bottom, and a small circular groove at the center of the bottom. On the exterior, twenty pronounced ribs set almost vertically on the body; the ribs end beyond the junction of the side and bottom.
TECHNIQUE Sagged; rotary-polished on the interior, the top, and the outside of the rim and across the upper ends of the ribs; fire-polished on the rest of the exterior; cut on the interior.
Published ReferencesThe Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, p. 23, ill.
Grose, David F., "The Origins and Early History of Glass," in The History of Glass, eds. Dan Klein and Ward Lloyd, 1984, p. 23, 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, Hudson Hills Press in Association with the Toledo Museum of Art, New York, 1989, cat. no. 228, p. 263, repr. (col.) p. 211, drawing, p. 412.
Lierke, Rosemarie, "'Aliud torno teritur': Rippenschalen und die Spuren einer unbekannten Glastechnologie: Heisses Glas auf der Töpferscheibe," ANTIKE WELT, v. 24, no. 3, 1993, pp. 218-234, fig. 14 (col.).
Comparative ReferencesSee also von Saldern, Axel et al., Gläser Der Antike, (Sammlung Oppenländer), Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, 1974, fig. 253, p. 96. Cf. Grose, David F., "The Syro-Palestinian Glass Industry in the Late Hellenistic Period," MUSE, no. 13, 1979, pp. 55-67; specifically pp. 61-63 for a discussion of Group C bowls.
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
First century BCE
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
Late first century BCE to mid-first century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Mid-second to early first century BCE
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