Carinated Bowl on Stem

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date1st century CE

DimensionsH: 6 in. (15.3 cm); Rim Diam: 6 1/16 in. (15.4 cm); Body Diam: 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm); Base Diam: 2 3/4 in. (7.0 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.2404

Not on View

DescriptionMedium thin glass. A few small bubbles. Transparent clear natural moderate green-tinted glass (near 5 BG 4/6). Translucent similarly colored handles. Free-blown. No pontil mark. Collar rim, rounded in flame with open cutout below. Straight sides tapering downward to below middle of body and then curving outward to form a pronounced carination. Blown base with solid tubular stem. Hollow foot with flaring sides and unworked rim. Two plain coil handles applied to wall at narrowest diameter and folded upward to form omega-shaped loops. A band of wheel-incisions ca. 3.0 cm below rim. CLASSIFICATION: Isings 1957, Form 36a. Glass; free-blown and tooled, wheel cut.

Exhibition HistoryWorcester Art Museum; Cleveland Museum of Art; Baltimore Museum of Art, Antioch: the Lost Ancient City, 2000-2001.