Translucent cobalt blue glass bowl with several irregular white marks, a short concave shoulder and convex, ribbed sides
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

The exterior of this translucent cobalt blue glass bowl shows several small, irregular, opaque white marks and minor brown staining or dirt accretions along the edges of its narrow vertical ribs. There is a larger, round white mark between the rim and the concave shoulder. There are two small chips on the rim and several narrow grooves running horizontally around the shoulder. On the body of the bowl there are five fully visible and two partially visible vertical rounded ribs that narrow slightly as they reach the bottom of the bowl.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1895.233
Title
Ribbed Bowl
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
second half of the 1st century BCE-first half of the 1st century CE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Crete
Period
Roman Imperial period, Early
Culture
Roman
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/292687

Location

Location
Level 3, Room 3700, Ancient Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Art, Roman Art
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Glass
Technique
Free-blown glass
Dimensions
6.2 x 10.6 cm (2 7/16 x 4 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Charles Eliot Norton and Richard Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1895), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1895.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Professor C.E. Norton and Richard Norton
Accession Year
1895
Object Number
1895.233
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Intact, ribbed bowl in translucent, cobalt glass. Rim flairs from a constricted shoulder; globular body with trail of opaque white wound around the shoulder and marvered into the surface; wheel-cut horizontal groove beneath the rim; narrow, vertical ribs have been tooled around the body.

Classification: C. Isings, Roman Glass from Dated Finds (Djakarta: Groningen, 1957), form 17

Comparison: Corning Museum of Glass 58.1.35

Exhibition History

  • Hellenistic Art: Objects from an Expanded World, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 10/03/2006 - 07/29/2007
  • 32Q: 3700 Roman, Harvard Art Museums, 11/16/2014 - 01/01/2050

Subjects and Contexts

  • Roman Domestic Art
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