Carved Cylinder
Carved Cylinder
Place of OriginProbably Italy
DateLate first century BCE to early first century CE
DimensionsL: 1 5/8 in. (4.0 cm); Diam: 3/4 in. (1.9 cm); Diam (aperture): 5/16 in. (0.8 cm)
MediumMold-pressed and cut monochrome glass; cast around a metal rod and cut; polished on the exterior.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1572
Not on View
DescriptionBead with three, molded, bearded faces.
Cylinder, possibly a furniture component, with three frontal theatrical masks cut on the exterior. Opaque turquoise-blue. Cylinder cut horizontally across the upper end. Longitudinal, off-center aperture.
Published ReferencesGrose, 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. 675, p. 371.
1st century BCE - 3rd century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Late nineteenth or first decade of twentieth century
Probably first century BCE, possibly later
1st century - 4th century CE
1st century BCE - 4th century CE
Early Imperial Period, 1st century BCE - 2nd century CE
1st century BCE - 4th century CE
Probably second quarter of the first century
First century BCE
Sixth through fifth centuries BCE
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