Dish
Dish
Place of OriginProbably Italy
DateLate first century BCE to early first century CE
DimensionsDiam: 6 in. (15.25 cm)
MediumMillefiori polychrome glass discs. Assembled from sections of cane and cast; rotary-polished on both surfaces; applied base ring.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1397
Not on View
DescriptionThis carinated dish was assembled from sections of cane and cast, with a low, rounded base ring applied separately. It has a horizontal rim with a rounded edge. The carinated side features two convex curves and a flat bottom. A composite mosaic pattern is formed from polygonal sections of three canes: the first in a blue ground with opaque white, opaque red, and blue concentric circles around a central opaque yellow rod; the second in a blue ground with an opaque white circle surrounding opaque yellow rods and a central opaque yellow rod outlined in opaque red; and the third, represented by two rectangular sections, in a green ground outlined in opaque yellow, each with an opaque red circle surrounding a central opaque yellow rod. The base ring is in a blue ground streaked with opaque red. The surface is rotary-polished on both sides.
Published ReferencesRichter, G. M. A., "The Curtis Collection of Ancient Glass," Art in America 2, 1914, pp. 77 and 81, fig. 7.
Grose, David F., "Ancient Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News 20, no. 3, 1978, p. 76, fig. 12.
Grose, David F., "The Formation of the Roman Glass Industry," Archaeology 36, no. 4, 1983, p. 40.
Grose, David F., "The Origins and Early History of Glass," in The History of Glass, eds. Dan Klein and Ward Lloyd, 1984, p. 24, ill.
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. 73, fig. 13, p. 75.
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. 442, p. 309, repr. (col.) p. 226, drawing, p. 442.
McMaster, Julie A., The Enduring Legacy: A Pictorial History of the Toledo Museum of Art, Superior Printing, Warren, OH, 2001, repr. (col.) p. 14.
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Probably first century BCE, possibly later
Second to mid-first century BCE
2nd to mid-1st century BCE
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