Carved Cylinder
Carved Cylinder
Place of OriginProbably Italy
DateLate 1st century BCE to early 1st century CE
DimensionsL: 1 5/8 in. (4.0 cm); Diam: 3/4 in. (1.9 cm); Diam (aperture): 5/16 in. (0.8 cm)
MediumMold-pressed and cut monochrome glass; cast around a metal rod and cut; polished on the exterior.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1572
Not on View
DescriptionOpaque turquoise-blue glass cylinder carved with three frontal theatrical masks, each featuring a bearded face. Likely created by casting around a metal rod and then cut and polished on the exterior. The cylinder is horizontally sliced at one end and features a slightly off-center hole running through its length.
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. 675, p. 371.Late 1st century BCE to early 1st century CE
1st century BCE - 3rd century CE
Probably 1st century BCE, possibly later
1st century BCE
1st century BCE - 4th century CE
Late nineteenth or first decade of twentieth century
1st century BCE - 1st century CE
1st century - 4th century CE
Probably 1st-2nd century CE
1st century BCE - 4th century CE
1st-2nd century CE
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