Spoon
Spoon
Place of OriginAncient Rome
Date2nd-5th century CE
DimensionsL: 6 11/16 in. (17 cm); W (bowl): 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm)
MediumGlass; blown and tooled
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.541
Not on View
DescriptionVery thin glass. A few vertically elongated bubbles in handle and bowl of spoon. Colorless; shallow, pointed bowl; straight handle
Transparent, decolorized with a yellowish gray tinge (near 5 Y 7/2).
Free-blown. No pontil mark. Tooled. Concave bowl of spoon formed by flattening or collapsing bulb at end of handle,leaving hollow areas near edge. Tool mark at tip of spoon indicates that the pointed shape resulted from pulling with pincers.
Long, very narrow, hollow tapering handle bent downward at its end for transition into bowl of spoon. Concave, shallow, spade-shaped bowl.
16th century
Late 18th Dynasty (about 1350–1300 BCE)
Probably second quarter of first century
Probably second quarter of first century
about 1500
Probably late third or fourth century
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