Ribbed glass bowl, Alexandria, 50 BC-50 AD
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This ribbed bowl was made of translucent green glass. The glass is thick, becoming thinner at the rim. The bottom presents a slight regular concavity. The rim appears to have been ground and polished. One hundred and four tooled ribs decorate the outside. These were probably tooled on a potter’s wheel. Two concentric circles (the inner circle is a single groove 7 mm in diameter, the outer circle is a double groove 52 mm in diameter) decorate the inside of the bowl. They were probably cold cut with a pointed tool while the bowl was rotated on a potter’s wheel (lathe cut). Egypt, Alexandria, 50 BC-50 AD. Tooled ribbed bowls are common, but not with such fine and numerous ribs. The only parallels we have found so far with such fine ribbing were molded, not tooled. Parallels: “Ribbed bowl. Ht. 4.5 cm, mouth diameter 16.7 cm. Bowl made of pale aquamarine glass with a slight greenish tinge; cast. This bowl has a large well-proportioned form. On the upper section of the vessel’s exterior, below the rim, is a band of small, closely-spaced ribs. The top of the ribs and the adjacent area above have been lathe-cut or polished, using a manufacturing technique which is still being studied. On the interior, below the ground rim, is a lathe-cut line. The bottom is decorated with a pair of similar lines, engraved around a central lathe-cut circle. This bowl has also acquired a remarkable bluish-green iridescence with black specks. Roman, late 1st century BC - 1st century AD” (Fortuna 1991:18-19 #24). “Schale. H. 4.8 cm, Diameter 12.9 cm. Syro-Palestinian. 50 BC-50 AD” (Münzen und Medaillen 1986:7 #3). “Ribbed bowl. Late century BC to the first half of the 1st century AD. H. 5.7 cm.; D.15.4 cm. Purple and colourless streak. Probably sagged, tooled and lathe-cut; obvious tool marks below rim. Shallow bowl; rounded by grinding… On exterior, forty-eight irregular ribs, round the sides, more or less vertical, from just below rim… On interior, visible wide lathe-cut groove” (Harden 1987:50 #26). Bibliography (for this item)Fortuna Fine Arts, Ltd.,1991 Shining Vessels: Ancient Glass from Greek, Roman, and Islamic Times. Fortuna Fine Arts, Ltd., New York, NY. (18-19 # 24) Harden, Donald B. 1987 Glass of the Caesars. Olivetti, Milan, Italy. (50 # 26) Münzen und Medaillen, 1986 Auktion 70. Kunswerke der Antike. Münzen und Medaillen, Basel, Swizerland. (7 # 3) Stern, E. Marianne, and Birgit Schlick-Nolte 1994 Early Glass of the Ancient World 1600 BC - AD 50 Ernesto Wolf Collection. Gerd Hatje, Ostfildern, Germany. |
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