Glass bowl with painted lid
Bowl (17.194.88a):
Translucent blue green.
Everted, knocked-off rim, with ground upper edge; narrow concave neck; sack-shaped body with side expanding downwards to rounded carination, then sloping inwards; small bottom, pushed in to form tall spike-like kick.
On side above carination, two narrow wheel-abraded horizontal bands.
Complete but one vertical crack from rim down side; few bubbles; soil encrustation, slight dulling, and creamy brown weathering.
Lid (17.194.88b):
Translucent blue green.
Rim turned down and inwards with unworked inner lip; concave upper surface.
Decoration in black lines on interior: woman seated to right but head turned to left with bare upper body and drapery below, flanked at bottom with flowers; objects in field to left (altar and offerings?).
Intact; few bubbles; patches of creamy weathering and brilliant iridescence.
Painted on the inside of the lid is a sketched drawing, possibly of the goddess Aphrodite. Similar vessels, decorated on the lid with various figures in black ink, are known principally from Cyprus.
Translucent blue green.
Everted, knocked-off rim, with ground upper edge; narrow concave neck; sack-shaped body with side expanding downwards to rounded carination, then sloping inwards; small bottom, pushed in to form tall spike-like kick.
On side above carination, two narrow wheel-abraded horizontal bands.
Complete but one vertical crack from rim down side; few bubbles; soil encrustation, slight dulling, and creamy brown weathering.
Lid (17.194.88b):
Translucent blue green.
Rim turned down and inwards with unworked inner lip; concave upper surface.
Decoration in black lines on interior: woman seated to right but head turned to left with bare upper body and drapery below, flanked at bottom with flowers; objects in field to left (altar and offerings?).
Intact; few bubbles; patches of creamy weathering and brilliant iridescence.
Painted on the inside of the lid is a sketched drawing, possibly of the goddess Aphrodite. Similar vessels, decorated on the lid with various figures in black ink, are known principally from Cyprus.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass bowl with painted lid
- Period: Mid Imperial
- Date: 2nd century CE
- Culture: Roman, Cypriot
- Medium: Glass; blown and cold-painted
- Dimensions: H.: 3 in. (7.6 cm)
Diam.: 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.88a, b
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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