Circular Plate on Base Ring

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Circular Plate on Base Ring

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date4th century CE

DimensionsH: 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm); Diam: 9 3/16 in. (23.4 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.880

Not on View

DescriptionThis plate is made of medium-thick glass in a transparent natural grayish-green hue (10 GY 5/2). A few small horizontally elongated bubbles are visible in the glass. The vessel was shaped by free-blowing and tooling, with no pontil mark present. The rim is rounded in the flame. The convex sides of the body meet the bottom at an obtuse angle. The bottom is slightly concave and slopes downward to the base ring, which is flat. The true base ring is outsplayed with faint diagonal impressions. A solid ridge is present on the exterior just below the rim, possibly folded and then pushed into the wall and flattened.

Published ReferencesGrose, David, "Ancient Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 20, no. 3, 1978, p. 78, repr. fig. 16.