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

DescriptionMedium thick glass. A few small horizontally elongated bubbles. Transparent natural grayish green (10 GY 5/2). Free-blown. No pontil mark. Rim rounded in flame. Convex body sides meet bottom in an obtuse angle. Bottom slightly concave and sloping downward to base ring. Base flat. True base ring outsplayed with faint diagonal impressions. Solid ridge outside below 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.