Ribbed Bowl
Ribbed Bowl
Artist
Unidentified
Period
Roman Empire
(Ancient Roman, 27 BCE-395 CE)
Place of OriginSyria, Palestine, or Italy
Datelate 1st century BCE-1st century CE
Dimensions1 9/16 × 5 in. (4 × 12.7 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1913.478
Not on View
DescriptionBroad, shallow ribbed bowl. Cobalt blue. Almost vertical rim, turned slightly inward, with a flat edge; fairly straight side, tapering diagonally downward; slightly concave bottom. On the interior, four narrow horizontal grooves: two in a band at the junction of the side and bottom (along with numerous abraded lines), and two small concentric circular grooves at the center of the bottom. On the exterior, sixty-six short, irregularly shaped close-set ribs arranged obliquely around the middle of the body.
Colbalt blue
TECHNIQUE Sagged; rotary-polished on the interior, the top, and the outside of the rim; fire-pohshed on the rest of the exterior; cut on the interior.
Published ReferencesThe Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, No. 21, 1914, p. 258, 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. 265, p. 265, repr. (col.) p. 212.
Lierke, Rosemarie, Die nicht-geblasenen antiken Glasgefaesse, Offenbach/Main, Deutsche glastechnische Gesellschaft, 2009, p. 53, repr. (col.).
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 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
Late first century BCE to mid-first century CE
Mid-second to early first century BCE
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