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  Worldvisitguide > Places > Metropolitan Museum... > Etruscan and Roman Antiquities > Art from Southern Italy... > Glass bowl
Glass bowl
Artist : Anonyme

Date : near 50 B.C.

Material : Glass
Acquisition : Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan (1917)
Dynastie Julio-Claudienne
Item 23 on 102
Etruscan and Roman Antiquities
Dishes (Bol)

Vitrine : V01

Area related
Empire romain


Description   

The rich colors of the marbling decoration on this bowl may have been meant to imitate semiprecious stone. It finds it closest parallel in pottery produced in southern Gaul ca A.D.50.
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