The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 18, 2024
Ribbed Glass Bowl
1–100 CE
Location: 103 Roman
Description
This type of vessel represents a Roman manufacturing breakthrough that made high-quality glassware broadly affordable for the first time. The ribs were pressed into a heated glass disk with a tool, and then the disk was heated over a convex form. The resulting bowl shape was slowly cooled and then turned on a lathe to polish the rim and apply incised detail. Finally, the bowl was fire-polished in the furnace. It is in pristine condition.- {{cite web|title=Ribbed Glass Bowl|url=false|author=|year=1–100 CE|access-date=18 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2009.474