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Illustration V

Illustration V

 
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Object Name: 
Lace Mosaic Bowl
Title: 
Illustration V
Department
Ancient
Category
Origins of Glassmaking
Roman
Place Made: 
Roman Empire
Date: 
225-100 BC
Color
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colorless
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yellow
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blue
Technique
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mosaic glass
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grinding
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fire polishing
Material
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glass
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 7.4 cm, Diam: 14.2 cm
Accession Number: 
66.1.235
Location: 
On Display
Description
Colorless glass rods, spirally wound with opaque yellow, bubbly matrix with patches of silvery iridescence inside and out, rim finished with colorless rod spirally wound with deep blue glass trail; mosaic glass technique, polished by rotary grinding. Nearly hemispherical bowl shaped by fusing 51 lengths of spirally twisted glass in or over a mold and evening the rim area by application of a horizontal trail of colorless glass with a blue spirally wound trail; evidence of rotary grinding on unweathered sections of interior, exterior may have been ground and fire-polished.
Provenance
Sangiorgi, Sergio, Source
1966
Sangiorgi, Giorgio, Former Collection

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Publications

Objects of Fantasy: Glass Inclusions of the Nineteenth Century (2001) illustrated, p. 44; BIB# 68390
Vetro Mosaico, Millefiori, Murrine (1985) illustrated, PP. 5-21;
Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1979) illustrated, pp. 177-178, #462, pls. 22, 40; BIB# 29547
Two Achaemenid Glass Bowls and a Hoard of Hellenistic Glass Vessels (1975) illustrated, p. 44; p. 41, figs. 14-15, #6;

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