Glass bowl with fluted decoration

late 2nd–early 1st century BCE

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 164

Semi-opaque colorless with yellowish tinge.
Outsplayed rounded rim; concave neck; deep convex side tapering slightly downward to flattish convex bottom.
On exterior, a band of two horizontal grooves around lower part of neck; a series of fifty-four shallow-cut vertical flutes on side extending from neck to bottom; below this another band of two horizontal grooves around bottom of side surrounding an eight-pointed star pattern.
Intact, but one small internal crack in side; many pinprick bubbles; dulling, pitting, and faint patches of brownish weathering.
Rotary grinding marks on interior.

With the decline of the core-formed glass industry in the third century B.C., casting glass in a mold became the favored technique for making luxury glass vessels.

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Title: Glass bowl with fluted decoration
Period: Hellenistic
Date: late 2nd–early 1st century BCE
Culture: Greek
Medium: Glass; cast and cut
Dimensions: H.: 3 1/16 in. (7.8 cm)
Diam.: 4 in. (10.2 cm)
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Object Number: 17.194.322
Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art

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