Glass bowl with painted decoration

Greek

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Colorless; gilding and red enamel paint.

Ground vertical rim; side of body sloping in and rounded at bottom; flat bottom.

Painted and gilded decoration on interior: building with a gabled roof and a porch supported by columns, flanked by trees; in the left foreground is a large Macedonian shield; on the right a large box (pyxis) with pointed lid.

Broken and repaired with areas of fill; some pinprick bubbles; rotary grinding marks; black, enamel-like weathering and iridescence.

On the interior of these bowls (2005.269.1-.2) are painted scenes in red and gold leaf, possibly also with other colors now indiscernible. Both scenes can be taken to represent sanctuaries, suggesting that the glass bowls may have been made as ritual offerings.

Glass bowl with painted decoration, glass, Greek

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Glass bowl with painted decoration, glass, Greek
Glass bowl with painted decoration, glass, Greek

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