Date : approx. between 63 and 14 B.C.
Material : Decorative sintered glass
Acquisition : Bequest of Edward C. Moore (1891)
Dynastie Julio-Claudienne
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Etruscan and Roman Antiquities
Dishes (Bol)
Vitrine : V01
Area related
Empire romain
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For separate slices of translucent glass - purple, yellow, blue and colorless - of roughly equal size were pressed together in a casting mold to make this bowl. Each quadrant was than decorated with a garland hanging from an opaque white cord.
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