Bowl-Shaped Lamp
Bowl-Shaped Lamp
Place of OriginAncient Rome
Dateabout 4th century CE
DimensionsH: 2 15/16 in. (7.4 cm); Rim Diam: 4 5/16 in. (11 cm)
MediumGlass; blown; applied decoration; cut.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1219
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin to medium thick glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. Blowing spirals.
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. Rim ground to give horizontal edge. Nearly hemispherical body. Slightly flattened base. On upper body, two deep wheel-cut grooves. On middle of body, three evenly spaced inverted triangles consisting of three blobs each.
4th century CE
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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