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Glass onyx bowl
Glass onyx bowl
Artist : Anonymous

Date : between the IInd and the Ist century B.C.

Material : Casted glass
Acquisition : Bequest of Edward C. Moore (1891)
Grèce hellénistique
Item 24 on 102
Etruscan and Roman Antiquities
Dishes (Bol)

Vitrine : V01

Area related
Greece



Description   

Although fragments of mosaic-glass wares are quite widespread, very few intact vessels are known. This bowl, made in imitation of vessels carved in semiprecious stone, such onyx or agate, is one of the star pieces to have survived.

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