Glass dish with gilding

ca. 2nd century BCE

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 162

Colorless with pale yellowish tinge.
Plain rounded rim; straight side tapering diagonally downward; slightly concave bottom.
On interior, a band below rim, comprising two horizontal grooves, the upper narrow and the lower broader, and halfway down side a broader band comprising a fine groove, followed below by a broader groove, then a ridge, undercut below with another broad groove, and finally another narrow groove. On exterior, traces of gilding on sides and bottom.
Broken and repaired, with four small areas of fill; many pinprick and a few larger bubbles; dulling, pitting, iridescence, and small patches of creamy brown weathering.
Rotary grinding marks on interior and exterior.
This dish finds its closest parallels among the so-called Canosa Group of Hellenistic glass tableware and, like them, it probably comes from South Italy.

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Title: Glass dish with gilding
Period: Hellenistic
Date: ca. 2nd century BCE
Culture: Greek
Medium: Glass; cast and cut
Dimensions: H. 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm)
diameter 10 3/4 (27.3 cm)
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1999
Object Number: 1999.315
Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art

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