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Facet-Cut Spoon

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The Khalili Collections

Facet-Cut Spoon
Facet-Cut Spoon
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The bowl of the spoon is plain inside and facet-cut with deep narrow ovals outside. The neck, rectangular in cross-section, arcs up sharply from the bowl as far as preserved. Glass spoons were used in the Roman Empire from the first century and seem to have been manufactured in the East from the second century onwards. They are based on metal, especially silver, prototypes. The facet-cut decoration on the exterior of the bowl might suggest that the spoon was used for serving.

The Khalili Collections

London

Title

Facet-Cut Spoon

Date

late 1st C

Medium

colourless glass, cast, facet-cut & polished with the handle restored in resin

Accession number

828

Work type

Sculpture

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