Glass dish with gilding

Greek

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.

Glass dish with gilding, Glass, Greek

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