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DOI Artikel:Żelazowski, Jerzy: Three Roman mould-blown glasses from the Michał Tyszkiewicz and Gołuchów Collections
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2. A yellow-brown truncated
conical beaker with
almond-shoped bosses from
the British Museum
(phot, token from J. Price,
„Decorated Mould-Blown
Glass Tablewares",
op. cit., p. 63, pi. XIX b)
sels of this type have been discovered over the entire area of the Roman Em-
pire, from Syria, across the shores of the Black Sea and Italy to south-western
Spain and Britain, featuring numerous regional variations of characteristic
decoration.14 In connection with this, it may be presumed that the existence of
numerous production centres of these vessels existed and that mould-blown glass
did not originate exclusively from the Levant to be exported from there to other
provinces.
It should, however, be emphasised that the question of the origins of de-
corated mould-blown glass is very much complicated not only by the possi-
14 Cf. J. Price, op. cit., p. 72-74; L. A. Scatozza Höricht, “Syrian Elements among the Glass from
Pompeii and Herculaneum”, in: M. Newby, K. Painter, op. cit., p. 76-85: N. Sorokina, „Das antike
Glas der Nordschwarzmeerküste”, in: Annales du 4e Congrès International d’Etude Historique du
Verre, Liège 1967, p. 67-79, Fig. 2.7-8; M. Bucovaia, Vase antice de sticla la Tomis, Constanta 1968,
no. 57, p. 52.
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conical beaker with
almond-shoped bosses from
the British Museum
(phot, token from J. Price,
„Decorated Mould-Blown
Glass Tablewares",
op. cit., p. 63, pi. XIX b)
sels of this type have been discovered over the entire area of the Roman Em-
pire, from Syria, across the shores of the Black Sea and Italy to south-western
Spain and Britain, featuring numerous regional variations of characteristic
decoration.14 In connection with this, it may be presumed that the existence of
numerous production centres of these vessels existed and that mould-blown glass
did not originate exclusively from the Levant to be exported from there to other
provinces.
It should, however, be emphasised that the question of the origins of de-
corated mould-blown glass is very much complicated not only by the possi-
14 Cf. J. Price, op. cit., p. 72-74; L. A. Scatozza Höricht, “Syrian Elements among the Glass from
Pompeii and Herculaneum”, in: M. Newby, K. Painter, op. cit., p. 76-85: N. Sorokina, „Das antike
Glas der Nordschwarzmeerküste”, in: Annales du 4e Congrès International d’Etude Historique du
Verre, Liège 1967, p. 67-79, Fig. 2.7-8; M. Bucovaia, Vase antice de sticla la Tomis, Constanta 1968,
no. 57, p. 52.
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