Glass bowl with painted decoration

Unknown

3rd century BCE · glass · Greek and Roman Art

Colorless; gilding and red enamel paint. Ground vertical rim; side of body sloping in and rounded at bottom; flat bottom. Painted and gilded decoration on interior: building with a gabled roof and a porch supported by columns, flanked by trees; in the left foreground is a large Macedonian shield; on the right a large box (pyxis) with pointed lid. Broken and repaired with areas of fill; some pinprick bubbles; rotary grinding marks; black, enamel-like weathering and iridescence. On the interior of these bowls (2005.269.1-.2) are painted scenes in red and gold leaf, possibly also with other colors now indiscernible. Both scenes can be taken to represent sanctuaries, suggesting that the glass bowls may have been made as ritual offerings.

Artist

Unknown

Date

3rd century BCE

Medium

glass

Culture

Greek

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Purchase, The Concordia Foundation Gift, 2005