Fragment of Dish

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Fragment of Dish

Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean, or Italy, most likely found in Rome

Dateprobably second century BCE

DimensionsH: 3/4 in. (1.9 cm); Original Diam: 8 7/16 in. (21.5 cm); Thickness: 3/16 in. (0.4 cm)

MediumAssembled from sections of cane and cast; applied rim; rotary-polished on the interior and the top of the rim; probably fire-polished on the rest of the exterior.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1980.423

Not on View

DescriptionFragment of rim, side, and basal angle of large, shallow dish. Upright rim with rounded edge; short, fairly straight side proceeding diagonally downward, then curving abruptly inward toward the bottom; the basal angle suggests a flat or almost flat bottom. Composite mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections of three canes: the first in a purple ground with opaque white lines radiating from a central opaque yellow rod; the second in a blue-green ground with opaque yellow lines (appearing green) radiating from a central blue rod; and the third in a blue-green ground with opaque white lines radiating from an opaque yellow rod. A purple cane wound spirally with an opaque white cane of identical diameter is attached as a rim.

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. 188, p. 199, repr. (col.) p. 180 (int).