Fragment of Dish

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Fragment of Dish

Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean or Italy, most likely Rome

DateSecond to mid-first century BCE

DimensionsH: 1 1/8 in. (2.8 cm); Original Diam: 8 5/16 in. (21.1 cm); Thickness: 3/16 in. (0.5 cm)

MediumAssembled from sections of cane and cast; applied rim; rotary-polished on both surfaces.

ClassificationGlass

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

Object number

1980.424

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DescriptionFragment of rim and side of broad, shallow dish. Outsplayed rim and side with thick, rounded edge; the basal angle suggests a flat or slightly convex bottom. Composite mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections, square segments, and short rectangular lengths of six canes: the first in a purple ground with an opaque white spiral around a central blue rod; the second in a blue ground with an opaque white spiral around a central purple rod; the third, all rectangular lengths, in a blue ground outlined in opaque white and flanked by lengths of purple; the fourth, all squarish segments, in an opaque white ground backed by purple (?); the fifth, all squarish segments, in an opaque yellow ground backed by purple; and the sixth, all short rectangular lengths, in a green ground backed by purple. The square segments are visible only on the interior. A wide blue network cane wound spirally with an opaque white thread 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. 196, p. 201, repr. (col.) p. 181 (int.).