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Object Name:

Lace Mosaic Bowl

Place Made:

Roman Empire

probably Italy

Accession Number:

66.1.217

Dimensions:

Overall H: 4.9 cm, Diam: 18.8 cm

Location:

On Display

Date:

about 25 BCE-50 CE

Primary Description:

Colorless glass rods with opaque white twists, slightly bubbly, pitted surface with some brown incrustation, rim finished with blue-green cane spirally wound with opaque yellow trail; pre- formed canes sagged in mold, both surfaces polished. Shallow bowl with curving side and narrow concave base; formed of fifty- seven spirally-twisted canes laid side by side and sagged in mold. Rim made more level by laying on horizontally one, or locally two, similar canes before adding single blue-green cane with yellow spiral twist.

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Department:

Ancient

Provenance:

Sangiorgi, Sergio (Italian), Source

1966

Sangiorgi, Giorgio (Italian, 1886-1965), Former Collection

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Exhibitions (1)

Glass of the Caesars

Venue(s)

British Museum 1987-11-18 through 1988-03-06

Romisch-Germanisches Museum 1988-04-15 through 1988-10-18

Musei Capitolini 1988-11-03 through 1989-01-31

Corning Museum of Glass

Publications (9)

Ritrovamenti e diffusione dei vetri a mosaico nell'Italia settentrionale in età romana (2007) illustrated, p. 40 (cat. 32); BIB# 102475

The Ennion drinking cups: update (2004) illustrated, p. 179, Fig. 38, #12;

La Fenice di Sabbia: Storia e Tecnologia del vetro Antico (1995) illustrated, p. 103, fig. 165; p. 111, pl. 165; BIB# 39935

All About Glass = Garasu Daihyakka (1993) p. 28; BIB# 36566

Glass of the Caesars (1987) illustrated, p. 39, #15; BIB# 31831

Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1979) illustrated, pp. 193-194, #523, pls. 27, 41; BIB# 29547

Esempi di Decorazione Moderna di Tutto il Mondo, [No. 11] Vetri D'Oggi (1955) p. X, fig. 13; BIB# 19550

Collezione di Vetri Antichi dalle Origini al V sec. D.C. (1914) p. 62, pl. 42, #221; BIB# 35815

I piu insigni monumenti di Ennione (1906) p. 5, fig. 1;