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Glass garland bowl

Glass garland bowl





Artist : Anonymous


Date : approx. between 63 and 14 B.C.

Material : Decorative sintered glass
Acquisition : Bequest of Edward C. Moore (1891)
Item 6 on 102
Etruscan and Roman Antiquities
Dishes

Vitrine : V01

Area related
Empire romain

Description   

For separate slices of translucent glass - purple, yellow, blue and colorless - of roughly equal size were pressed together in a casting mold to make this bowl. Each quadrant was than decorated with a garland hanging from an opaque white cord.
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