55 Twisted Rods

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Object Name: 
55 Twisted Rods
Place Made: 
probably Rome
Accession Number: 
76.1.59
Dimensions: 
Large Rod L: 14.2 cm, Diam: 0.8 cm; other fragments vary from L: 9 cm-0.7 cm, Diam: 8.5 cm-0.5 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
25 BCE-99 CE
Credit Line: 
Gift of Carl Berkowitz and Derek Content
Primary Description: 
Rods of translucent deep blue, translucent amethyst, translucent light green, translucent yellow-green, opaque white and translucent bluish-green, spirally twisted trails of opaque white, opaque yellow, and green; tooled and trail-decorated. Fragments preserve a wide assortment of cane diameters and lengths with spiral decorations including thick wide trails on amethyst in blue matrix as well as yellow and green trails on colorless glass matrices; one large translucent colorless glass rod with a greenish tinge may be a spindle whirl attachment, one colorless rod with slight greenish tinge preserves a wide flat end, probably the end of a spoon, a thick greenish-yellow rod lightly twisted may be an unfinished segment.

More Info

Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
Gutmann Collection, Former Collection
Smith, Ray Winfield (American, 1897-1982), Former Collection
Berkowitz, Carl, Source
1976-01-01
Content, Derek, Source
1976-01-01
Category: 
Origins of Glassmaking
Color: 
blue
amethyst
green
yellow
white
Technique: 
applied decoration
hot-working
Material: 
glass

Publications (1)

Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1979) illustrated, p. 246, #720; BIB# 29547

Objects in Set (55)

Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-1
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-2
 
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-3
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-4
 
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-5
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-6
 
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-7
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-8
 
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-9
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-10
 
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-11
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-12
 
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-13
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-14
 
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-15
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-16
 
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-17
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-18
 
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-19
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-20
 
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-21
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-22
 
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-23
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-24
 
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-25
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-26
 
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-27
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-28
 
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-29
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-30
 
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-31
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-32
 
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-33
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-34
 
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-35
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-36
 
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-37
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-38
 
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-39
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-40
 
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-41
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-42
 
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-43
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-44
 
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-45
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-46
 
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-47
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-48
 
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-49
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-50
 
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-51
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-52
 
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-53
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-54
 
Twisted Rod
Date:25 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:76.1.59-55