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Ribbed Glass Bowl
The collection record classifies this work as glass. It is dated 1–100 CE. Recorded culture or place: Roman.
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- Museum title
- Ribbed Glass Bowl
- Date
- 1–100 CE
- Culture / origin
- Roman
- Materials and technique
- glass
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 6.5 cm (2 9/16 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 2009.474
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
This type of vessel represents the Roman manufacturing breakthrough of slump molding, which made high-quality glassware broadly affordable for the first time. The artisan formed ribs on a hot glass disk before the disk was placed on a convex form. The resulting bowl shape was slowly cooled and then turned on a lathe to polish the rim and apply incised detail. Finally, the bowl was fire-polished in the furnace. It is in pristine condition.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of Dr. Norman Zaworski · CC0
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