Carinated Bowl on Stem
Date: 1st century CE
Dimensions:
H: 6 in. (15.3 cm); Rim Diam: 6 1/16 in. (15.4 cm); Body Diam: 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm); Base Diam: 2 3/4 in. (7.0 cm)
Medium: glass
Place of Origin: Ancient Rome
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1923.2404
DescriptionMedium thin glass. A few small bubbles.
Transparent clear natural moderate green-tinted glass (near 5 BG 4/6). Translucent similarly colored handles.
Free-blown. No pontil mark.
Collar rim, rounded in flame with open cutout below. Straight sides tapering downward to below middle of body and then curving outward to form a pronounced carination. Blown base with solid tubular stem. Hollow foot with flaring sides and unworked rim. Two plain coil handles applied to wall at narrowest diameter and folded upward to form omega-shaped loops.
A band of wheel-incisions ca. 3.0 cm below rim.
CLASSIFICATION: Isings 1957, Form 36a.
Glass; free-blown and tooled, wheel cut.
Transparent clear natural moderate green-tinted glass (near 5 BG 4/6). Translucent similarly colored handles.
Free-blown. No pontil mark.
Collar rim, rounded in flame with open cutout below. Straight sides tapering downward to below middle of body and then curving outward to form a pronounced carination. Blown base with solid tubular stem. Hollow foot with flaring sides and unworked rim. Two plain coil handles applied to wall at narrowest diameter and folded upward to form omega-shaped loops.
A band of wheel-incisions ca. 3.0 cm below rim.
CLASSIFICATION: Isings 1957, Form 36a.
Glass; free-blown and tooled, wheel cut.
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