Fragment of Dish
Fragment of Dish
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean or Italy, most likely Rome
Date2nd to mid-1st century BCE
DimensionsH: 1 5/16 in. (3.4 cm); Original Diam: 7 1/16 in. (18 cm); Thickness: 1/8 in. (0.3 cm)
MediumAssembled from sections, segments, and lengths of cane and cast; rotary-polished on the interior, the top, and the outside of the rim; probably fire-polished on the rest of the exterior; tooling marks on the exterior.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1980.432
Not on View
DescriptionFragment of rim and side of broad, shallow dish. Fairly straight, outsplayed rim and side with rounded edge. Composite mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections, square segments, and short rectangular lengths of five canes: the first in a golden-brown ground with an opaque white spiral around a central opaque yellow rod; the second in a colorless ground with an opaque yellow spiral around a central pale purple rod outlined in opaque white; the third in a colorless ground with an opaque white spiral around a central opaque yellow rod; the fourth, all rectangular lengths, in a golden-brown ground with three parallel opaque white lines; and the fifth, all square segments, in an opaque white ground backed by golden-brown, visible only on the interior. A wide golden-brown 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. 198, p. 201, repr. (col.) p. 181 (int.).Second to mid-first century BCE
Second to mid-first century BCE
2nd to mid-1st century BCE
Second to mid-first century BCE
2nd to mid-1st century BCE
1st 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
Second to mid-first century BCE
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