Bowl (Patella)
Bowl (Patella)
Place of OriginProbably Italy
DateLate 1st century BCE to early 1st century CE
DimensionsH: 1 5/8 in. (4.2 cm); Rim Diam: 3 7/8 in. (9.9 cm)
MediumGlass; assembled from sections of cane and cast; rotary-polished on both surfaces; applied base ring
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1395
Not on View
DescriptionThis carinated bowl was assembled from sections of cane and cast, with an applied base ring. The rim is almost horizontal with a rounded edge. The carinated side features two convex curves. The upper side of the bottom is concave and the underside is slightly convex. The short, outsplayed base ring has a rounded edge. A composite mosaic pattern is formed from polygonal sections of three canes: the first in a pale turquoise-blue ground with nine opaque yellow rods surrounding a central opaque white rod; the second in a blue ground with multiple opaque white rods around a central opaque red rod; and the third in a blue-green ground with multiple opaque white rods around a central opaque red rod. The base ring is probably in a pale blue ground streaked with opaque red and opaque yellow. The bowl is rotary-polished on both surfaces.
Published ReferencesGrose, David F., "Ancient Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News 20 no. 3, 1978, p. 77, fig. 12.
Grose, David F., "the Origins and Early History of Glass," in The History of Glass, eds. Dan Klein and Ward Lloyd, London, 1984, p. 24.
Grose, David F., "Innovation and change in ancient technologies: The anomalous case of the Roman glass industry," in High-technology ceramics, Westerville, OH, 1986, p. 73, fig. 13, p. 75.
Battie, David and Simon Cottle, eds., Sotheby's concise encyclopedia of glass, London, 1991, repr. p. 29 (col.).
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, Hudson Hills Press in Association with the Toledo Museum of Art, New York, 1989, Catalog No. 512, p. 322, repr. (col.) p. 225, drawing, p. 426.
Arts, P.L.W., "A Collection of Ancient Glass 500 BC - 500 AD," ANTIEK Lochem, 2000, p. 90.
Psychedelic Mania: Stephen Rolfe Powell's Dance with Glass, Montgomery, AL, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 2012, p. 36, repr. (col.) p. 37, fig. 19.
Late 1st century BCE to early 1st century CE
Late 1st century BCE to early 1st century CE
Late 1st century BCE to early 1st century CE
Late 1st century BCE to early 1st century CE
Late 1st century BCE to early 1st century CE
Late 1st century BCE to early 1st century CE
Late 1st century BCE to early 1st century CE
Late 1st century BCE to early 1st century CE
Late 1st century BCE to early 1st century CE
Probably 1st century BCE, possibly later
Probably 2nd to mid-1st century BCE
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