Monday, September 19, 2011

Glassmaking In Antiquity


Molten Color : Glassmaking in Antiquity is a beautiful yet inexpensive recent paperback from the Getty Museum. It documents an ongoing exhibition at the Getty Villa, featuring numerous miraculous survivors from Roman days -- survivors now lured to Malibu on the coast of California in the Western Hemisphere by means of those famously seductive Getty dollars.


Two-handled wine cup
Roman, first century A.D.


Serving bowl with handle
Roman, third-fourth century A.D.


Sprinkler flask with pinched vertical ribs
Roman, third-fourth century A.D.


Flask with interior threads
Roman, fourth century A.D.


Cinerary urn
Roman, first-second century A.D.


Cameo two-handled wine cup
Roman, 25 B.C.-A.D. 25


Gold band container
Late Hellenistic or Roman, 25 B.C.-A.D. 25