File:Relief - Glass bowl fragment - 1.jpg

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Description
English: molded glass bowl fragment.

These two images show both sides of the one fragment.

"...a fragment of a mold-made glass bowl... originally demonstrated a total of twelve sexual positions in relief on its interior, with an additional image of the “woman riding” position on the exterior."[1]

When creating this bowl molten glass was poured in between two molds.[2]. The images were created by a relief that was on the sides of the two molds.


Image on the left: This image shows the side of the fragment that was the interior side of the bowl.

Image on the right: This image shows the side of the fragment that was the exterior side of the bowl.

Pressed in a two-part mold

Dimensions: Overall: 2 3/16 x 1 1/4in. (5.6 x 3.2cm)

Overall Diameter: Around 4.5 inches.

Roman

Date: end of 1st century BCE to beginning of 1st century CE
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Source

File:Glass_bowl_fragment_with_erotic_scenes_MET_DP139893.jpg

File:Glass_bowl_fragment_with_erotic_scenes_MET_DP138740.jpg
Author Metropolitan Museum of Art

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  1. ↑ Clarke, John (2017-02-27). sexual representation, visual. Oxford Research Encyclopedia. Oxford University Press. Retrieved on 23 February 2022.
  2. ↑ John R. Clarke (1998) Looking at Lovemaking Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art, 100 B.C. – A.D. 250, University of California Press, p. 31 - 32 ISBN: 9780520229044.

Captions

A molded glass bowl fragment. This is one single fragment from a glass bowl. The image shows boths side of the one fragment. It is thought that there were twelve sexual scenes on its interior side and one sexual scene on its exterior.

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

erotic art

relief sculpture

glass

bowl

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