Bowl
Bowl
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean or Italy
Date2nd century BCE
DimensionsH: 3 in. (7.6 cm); Diam: 5 1/2 in. (13.9 cm)
MediumAssembled from sections and segments of cane and cast; applied rim; rotary-polished on the interior, the top, and the outside of the rim, but possibly not on the rest of the exterior, which has a fire-polished appearance.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1967.10
Not on View
DescriptionTen joining fragments of hemispherical bowl. Vertical rim with rounded edge; convex curving side; convex bottom. Composite mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections of a single composite cane in a blue-green ground with an opaque yellow spiral; with a small number of square segments of three additional canes; the first in an opaque yellow ground backed by colorless; the second in a dark blue ground with a central opaque white line; and the third in a purple ground with a central opaque white line. A dark blue network cane wound spirally with an opaque white thread is attached as a rim.
Published ReferencesSangiorgi, Giorgio, Collezione de verti antichi dalle origini al V secolo D.C. ordinati e descritti da Giorgio Sangiorgi con prefazione di W. Froehner, Rome, 1914, no. 223, pl. 43.
Harden , Donald B., "The Canosa Group of Hellenistic Glasses in the British Museum," Journal of Glass Studies, 10, pp. 31, 37, and 42.
Oliver, Andrew, Jr., "Millefiori Glass in Classical Antiquity," Journal of Glass Studies, 10, pp. 59 and 68, no 8.
Art in Glass, 1969, p. 20, ill.
Gunther, Charles F., "How Glass is Made," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, 1972, no. 1, p. 16, ill.
Grose, David F., "Ancient Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, 20, 1978, no. 3, p. 73, fig. 7.
Grose, David F., "The Origins and Early History of Glass," in The History of Glass, eds. Dan Klein and Ward Lloyd, London, 1984a, p. 22, 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. 184, p. 198, Repr. (col.) p. 178.
Second to mid-first century BCE
2nd to mid-1st century BCE
1st century BCE
probably second century BCE
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
2nd to mid-1st century BCE
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