Glass Ribbed Bowl with Blue and White Markings in the Getty Villa, June 2016

Title: Ribbed Bowl

Artist/Maker: Unknown

Date: 1st century B.C.

Medium: Glass

Dimensions: Object: 4.9 × 17 cm (1 15/16 × 6 11/16 in.)

Place: Workshop in the Eastern Mediterranean, Italy (Place Created)

Culture: Roman

Object Number: 2004.25

Alternate Titles: Ribbed Bowl with Blue and White Marbling (Alternate Title)

Department: Antiquities

Classification: Vessel

Object Type: Bowl


Cast ribbed bowl of semi-opaque dark blue and milky white mosaic glass formed by slumping into a mold pre-lined with sections of white and blue rods in a swirl pattern. Three incised, concentric rings decorate the inside. Previously fractured and rejoined.

Text from: www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/10961V