Footed Bowl with Basket Handle

Place of OriginRoman Empire

Date3rd-4th century CE

DimensionsH: 3 9/16 in. (9.0 cm); Rim Diam: 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm); Body Diam: 2 13/16 in. (7.1 cm); Base Diam: 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm)

MediumGlass; blown in a mold, removed, free-blown, and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.661

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DescriptionThis footed bowl with a basket handle is made of transparent to translucent dark royal blue glass. The bowl’s body was blown into a vertically ribbed and grooved mold, then expanded and shaped further by hand. The rim is folded outward and downward, with an irregular tool mark visible along the exterior. The bulbous body has its greatest diameter below the middle, tapering to a concave base with an open, pushed-in base ring. A rounded basket handle, made from a heavy coil of similarly colored glass, is attached at one side of the rim and loops up to join the opposite side. The tip of the handle was drawn out thin, snapped off, and slumped back to the underside of its attachment. Twenty-eight indistinct expanded ribs decorate the body. The glass is thin with a few pinprick bubbles.