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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1935.35.69
Title
Dish
Other Titles
Former Title: BLUE GLASS PLATE (BROKEN)
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
2nd-4th century CE
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Greece
Period
Roman Imperial period
Culture
Roman
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/291961

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Green glass
Technique
Free-blown glass
Dimensions
15.5 cm (6 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Bettina Jane Kahnweiler, New York City, NY (by 1935), gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1935.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Miss Bettina J. Kahnweiler
Accession Year
1935
Object Number
1935.35.69
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Dish; applied foot ring, center of dish raised, sides bent outwards to form dish shape, rolled lip, two opposite applied sections of wavy decoration on rim. Previously reconstructed from fragments, with section of body and of rim missing; covered in patches of iridescence, dirt accretions on ring foot and rim decoration.

Subjects and Contexts

  • Roman Domestic Art

Verification Level

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