Collection Ribbed Bowl

Ribbed Bowl

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Ancient Greek and Roman, Level 2, South Wing

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About the Artwork

The molded glass bowl is an example of the handsome luxury tableware available in early Roman Imperial times. The beauty of translucent glass was just beginning to be appreciated, and a wide variety of shapes in different colors was produced for affluent homeowners. This vessel, with its sharply defined ribs, was probably an imitation of similar, much more expensive bowls of gold and silver. The glassmakers were experimenting in techniques and designs in the first stages of what was to become an enormous industry in mass-produced glass for domestic use throughout the Roman world.

Ribbed Bowl

1st century BCE or 1st century CE

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Roman

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Glass

Overall: 1 7/8 × 5 inches (4.8 × 12.7 cm)

Glass

Greco-Roman and Ancient European

Founders Society Purchase, Cleo and Lester Gruber Fund

1990.270

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(Donna Jacobs Gallery, Ltd., Birmingham, Michigan, USA);
1990-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Henshaw, Julia P. A Visitors Guide: The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1995, p. 119 (ill.)

Slough, Penelope W. “The Art of Ancient Glass.” Bulletin of the DIA 79, no. 1/2 (2005): ill. 38, (fig. 5).

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Roman, Ribbed Bowl, 1st century BCE or 1st century CE, glass. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Cleo and Lester Gruber Fund, 1990.270.

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