Bowl-Shaped Lamp
Bowl-Shaped Lamp
Place of OriginAncient Rome
Date4th century CE
DimensionsH: 2 15/16 in. (7.5 cm); Rim Diam: 3 5/8 in. (9.3 cm)
MediumGlass; blown; wheel cut; applied decoration
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number
1954.29
Not on View
DescriptionThin glass. Numerous small and medium-sized ovoid bubbles.
Transparent decolorized glass with a grayish yellow green tinge (5 GY 7/2). Translucent dark royal blue blobs.
Free-blown. No pontil mark. Added blobs. Wheel-cut.
Flaring rim, ground to give horizontal edge. Ovoid body. Round base (vessel cannot stand).
Around body, three evenly spaced deep wheel-cut grooves. Around middle of body, four groups of blue blobs: large single blobs alternating with inverted triangles of six blobs.
4th century CE
about 4th century CE
5th-6th century
3rd - 5th century CE
7th-9th century
Late 6th - 5th century BCE
Probably sixth century, BCE, possibly later
6th - 5th centuries BCE
Sixth through fifth centuries BCE
1st century BCE - 4th century CE
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