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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
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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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