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Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron and Son

Seán Hemingway, curator, Department of Greek and Roman Art, discusses early twentieth-century reproductions of works from Sir Arthur Evans's historic excavations of Minoan Crete and Heinrich Schliemann's Mycenaean Greece.

This lecture was recorded on September 9, 2011, in conjunction with the exhibition Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son, on view May 17, 2011, through June 17, 2012.

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Glass bowl

Period:: Mid-Imperial
Date:: 2nd–3rd century A.D.
Culture:: Roman
Medium:: Glass; blown
Dimensions:: H.: 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm) Diam.: 4 x 2 1/8 in. (10.2 x 5.4 cm)
Classification:: Glass
Credit Line:: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
Accession Number:: 74.51.267

This artwork is not on display

Description

Colorless with pale green tinge
Tubular rim, folded over and in; straight sides to body, flaring upwards; integral tubular base ring, flaring downwards with rounded bottom edge; thick, pushed-in bottom, slightly concave with traces of pontil scar.
Intact; pinprick bubbles and blowing striations; some dulling and faint iridescence; patches of creamy brown and black weathering.
Provenance

From Cyprus, said to be from a tomb at Idalion (modern Dali)
References

Myres, J.L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 5544, p. 510.
See also
What
Glass (16,099)

Bowls (5,015)
Where
Roman Empire (5,258)
When
A.D. 1-500 (6,214)
In the Museum
Greek and Roman Art (17,330)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Italian Peninsula, 1–500A.D.