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THBRoman Glass Ribbed Bowl - Pillar Molded
Lot 21
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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Aug 22, 2019
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2019-08-22 10:00:00
2019-08-22 10:00:00
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Featuring classical antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art from cultures encompassing the globe, plus fine art. Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Near Eastern, Asian, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, Russian, Fine Art, so much more! Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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- Lot Description
Roman, late Republic to early Imperial Period, ca. 1st century BCE to 1st century CE. A beautiful, ribbed bowl comprised of translucent, aqua-colored glass. The vessel is mold-made, cast in a shallow phiale-like form, sitting upon a slightly concave base and displaying numerous, evenly spaced ribs which radiate around the shoulder. In addition to its elegant form, the gorgeous aqua hues are imbued with marvelous iridescence on both sides - presenting silver, golden yellow, spring green, and brilliant hot pink hues! This type of glass is known as "pillar-molded" glass, a term that refers to the production technique whereby a flat sheet of pliable glass was placed over a solid mold upside-down so that it slipped and sagged over the mold, and worked to create the ribs on the exterior. Bowls like this one were used as part of the Roman "cena," or evening meal, probably for holding condiments like garum (fermented fish sauce). Size: 6.25" in diameter x 1.75" H (15.9 cm x 4.4 cm)
Most scholars agree, Roman glass was of the highest quality - both aesthetically and technically - among the ancients. While glass making had been practiced for centuries, glass blowing was invented in the Roman-controlled Holy Land in the 1st century BCE. This innovative technology revolutionized the artform. We can appreciate such a wide variety of forms and shapes, because the medium of glass has unique physical properties that make for so many more possibilities which would eventually replace a wide variety of pottery and metal wares in the ancient world. Roman glassmakers reached incredible artistic heights with both free-blown vessels and mold blown forms and decorations and were traded far beyond the Roman Empire. Roman glass vessels have been found in Scandinavia, India, and in Han Dynasty tombs in China.
For a stylistically-similar example, please see "Solid Liquid: Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Glass." Fortuna Fine Arts, Ltd., New York, 1999, p. 40, fig. 47.
Provenance: private East Coast, USA collection
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#134726A couple of minute pressure fissures at the rim, but otherwise intact and the surface is imbued with amazing iridescence of silver, gold, pink, green, and hot pink hues.Condition
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