Glass dish with gilding

Unknown

ca. 2nd century BCE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Colorless with pale yellowish tinge. Plain rounded rim; straight side tapering diagonally downward; slightly concave bottom. On interior, a band below rim, comprising two horizontal grooves, the upper narrow and the lower broader, and halfway down side a broader band comprising a fine groove, followed below by a broader groove, then a ridge, undercut below with another broad groove, and finally another narrow groove. On exterior, traces of gilding on sides and bottom. Broken and repaired, with four small areas of fill; many pinprick and a few larger bubbles; dulling, pitting, iridescence, and small patches of creamy brown weathering. Rotary grinding marks on interior and exterior. This dish finds its closest parallels among the so-called Canosa Group of Hellenistic glass tableware and, like them, it probably comes from South Italy.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 2nd century BCE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Greek

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1999