Bowl

Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

Early 1st century BCE

Roman; probably Eastern Mediterranean

This bowl contains yellow threads wound around colorless canes of glass that were then fused together. The spiral pattern in the body of bowls of this kind has given them the name network mosaic bowls. Most known examples were recovered in 1900 from a shipwreck that probably occurred around 80 B.C. off the southwest coast of Greece near Antikythera. The discovery of similar examples in Syria, Crete, Greece, and southern Italy has led to the theory that these distinctive bowls were made in the eastern Mediterranean.

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Department: Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

Culture: Ancient Roman
Title: Bowl
Place: Italy (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 100 BCE–50 BCE
Medium: Glass, mosaic glass technique
Dimensions: 5 × 9.4 × 9.4 cm (2 × 3 3/4 × 3 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Theodore W. and Frances S. Robinson
Reference Number: 1947.888
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Wanda Odell, “Ancient Glass: The Mr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Robinson Collection, Gallery 5A, The Art Institute of Chicago,” 1940, unpublished catalogue in curatorial object file, Art Institute of Chicago.
Geraldine Casper, Glass Paperweights in the Art Institute of Chicago, (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1991), p. 10 (ill.).
Theresa Gross-Diaz, “Roman Art” in Museum Studies: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago 20, no. 1 (1994), pp. 86, 88 (ill.).
Sidney Goldstein, “Cat. 74 Bowl: Curatorial Entry,” in Roman Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016).

Art Institute of Chicago, Of Gods and Glamour: The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art, Gallery 152, November 11, 2012 - present.

Theodore W. and Frances S. Robinson, Chicago, by 1931; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1947.

Cat. 74 Bowl, early 1st century B.C.

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