Straight-Sided bowl on base ring

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Straight-Sided bowl on base ring

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date3rd-4th century CE

DimensionsH: 2 5/16 in. (5.9 cm); Rim Diam: 3 9/16 in. (9.0 cm); Body Diam: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm); Base Diam: 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1328

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DescriptionThis straight-sided bowl is made of medium thin glass with a few pinprick bubbles. The glass is transparent with a natural light olive tint (10 Y 5/4) and decorated with a dusky blue-green thread (5 BG 3/2). It was free-blown, with a pontil mark about 1.1 cm in diameter, and has added thread decoration that appears bubbly with small impurities. The rim is horizontally outsplayed, folded downward and inward. The sides are straight, tapering slightly downward. The low domed base is pushed in with a hollow tubular base ring. On the lower half of the body, a thread begins above the base forming a fifteen-fold zigzag from right to left, with three revolutions of thread above the zigzag. The thread of the zigzag is so thin that it broke a few times; the first zigzags were trailed on individually, followed by a group of four and then a group of seven. This vessel is classified as Isings 1957, Form 87 (variation).