Bowl-Shaped Vessel (Lamp)

Place of OriginAncient Rome

DateAbout 3rd century CE

DimensionsH: 2 7/16 in. (6.1 cm); Rim Diam: 3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm); Body Diam: 4 in. (10.1 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown; tooled; applied decoration.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1910

Not on View

DescriptionThin glass. Small oval bubbles in body. Transparent natural dusky yellow green (between 5 GY 5/2 and 5 GY 7/2). Similarly colored projections on body. Free-blown. No pontil mark. Incised. Flaring rim, lightly ground. Bulbous body with greatest diameter at middle. Flattened base with slight depression in center. Three bands of roughly sketched wheel-cut incisions: one below rim, one on upper body, and one on lower body. Around center of body, a row of seven rounded, evenly spaced, regularly shaped projections.

Published ReferencesPuma, Richard Daniel de, Art In Roman Life: Villa to Grave, Rome, L'erma di Bretschneider, 2009, p. 92.