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Ribbed Bowl

Ribbed Bowl

 
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Object Name: 
Ribbed Bowl
Department
Ancient
Category
Roman
Place Made: 
Roman Empire
Date: 
1-99
Color
Colorless, gray tinge,amethyst
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colorless
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amethyst
Technique
mold-pressed, tooled, lathe-cut and polished
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tooling
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 5.8 cm, Rim Diam: 11.4 cm
Accession Number: 
52.1.79
Location: 
Not on Display
Description
Ribbed Bowl. Colorless glass with gray tinge and amethyst streaks, bubbly somewhat pitted surface, area on interior retains highly iridescent patches; mold-pressed, tooled, lathe-cut and polished. Rim rounded by reheating bends down into deep vessel with almost straight sides, twenty ribs on exterior, wide wheel-cut groove below rim on interior, two more shallow grooves divide bowl approximately in half.
Provenance
Sobernheim, Former Collection
Stack's Galleries, Source
1952-04-29

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Exhibitions

VENINI - Glass and Design in a World Perspective
Venue(s)
Mingei International Museum 2001-07-05 through 2002-01-31
East Side Winter Antiques Show
Venue(s)
Park Avenue Armory
Publications
1
 

Publications

Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1979) pp. 155-156, #332, pl. 40; BIB# 29547

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