Squat Bulbous Bowl with Thin Ribs (Zarte Rippenschale)
Squat Bulbous Bowl with Thin Ribs (Zarte Rippenschale)
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean (Syro-Palestinian), Ancient Rome
DateFirst half of the first century CE
DimensionsH: 2 5/16 in. (5.8 cm); Rim Diam: 2 3/4 in. (7 cm); Diam: 3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown, tooled, applied decoration
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.426
Not on View
DescriptionThin glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. Blue; white decoration; hemispherical shape; flared rim; on interior, top decorated with band of horizontal grooves; remainder of bowl with pinched vertical ribs; white looped decoration.
Transparent royal blue with opaque white thread.
Free-blown. Added thread; tooled.
Rim ground; concave lip. Squat bulbous body. Base rounded.
Seventeen thin irregularly placed ribs covered with opaque white spiral thread from base to lip. On lower part of lip, a band of six shallow horizontal grooves corresponding to a band of polishing marks on interior.
CLASSIFICATION Isings 1957, Form 17
Published ReferencesStern, E. Marianne, "Roman glassblowing in a cultural context," AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY, vol. 103, no. 3, July, 1999, p. 448, fig. 13, p. 450.Comparative ReferencesSee also von Saldern, Axel, et al., Gläser Der Antike, Sammlung Oppenländer, Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1974, fig. 262, p. 100.
First half of the first century CE
Late first century BCE to mid-first century CE
Late first century BCE to mid-first century CE
Late first century BCE to mid-first century CE
Late first century BCE to mid-first century CE
Late first century BCE to mid-first century CE
Late first century BCE to mid-first century CE
Late first century BCE to mid-first century CE
Late first century BCE to mid-first century CE
late 1st century BCE-mid 1st century CE
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