Bulbous Bowl on Base Ring

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Bulbous Bowl on Base Ring

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date1st-2nd century CE

DimensionsH: 2 1/16 in. (5.3 cm); Rim Diam: 5 in. (12.3 cm); Base Diam: 2 3/16 in. (5.6 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.874

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. Small spherical bubbles. Transparent natural light olive green (10 Y 5/4). Coils of similar color. Free-blown. Added coil, tooled. Circular scar on underside of base, 2.2 cm in diameter. Solid rim, folded outward, downward, and inward. Curved sides. Pushed-in base with kick in center and hollow tubular base ring. On the rim, two corruguated coils signifying handles (8.0 cm and 7.7 cm). CLASSIFICATION: Isings 1957, form 43 (eastern variation); Vessberg 1952, Deep Bowl B1 B3, pl. II 5, 6 (variation).

Published ReferencesHayes, John W., Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1975, p. 64, no. 179. (A close parallel dated "2nd or early 3rd century A. D.")