1932.56.106: Bowl
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1932.56.106
- Title
- Bowl
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 1st century BCE-1st century CE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World
- Period
- Hellenistic period, Late, to Early Roman Imperial
- Culture
- Roman
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/292361
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Glass
- Technique
- Cast
- Dimensions
- H. 4.3 x W. 14.6 cm (1 11/16 x 5 3/4 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Dr. Harris Kennedy, Milton, MA (by 1932), gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1932.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Dr. Harris Kennedy, Class of 1894
- Accession Year
- 1932
- Object Number
- 1932.56.106
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
-
Intact bowl in transparent, cobalt blue glass; broad and shallow with thick, rounded vertical walls; upright rim with rounded edge. On the interior, two narrow horizontal bands around the body: one below the rim, the other around the middle of the body. On the exterior, two wheel-cut grooves below the rim.
Classification: C. Isings, Roman Glass from Dated Finds (Djakarta: Groningen, 1957), form 18; David Grose, "The Syro-Palestinian Glass Industry in the Later Hellenistic Period," MUSE 13: 1979, Group D, p. 56 and 63-65.
Comparisons: Corning Museum of Glass 79.1.34 and Metropolitan Museum of Art 74.51.296 (for shape and technique); - Commentary
- A bowl is an open-shaped vessel, wider than it is tall. Bowls were most often used to hold food.
Subjects and Contexts
- Roman Domestic Art
Verification Level
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