Bulbous Bowl with 'Splashed' Decoration

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Bulbous Bowl with 'Splashed' Decoration

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date1st century CE

DimensionsH: 2 3/4 in. (7.0 cm); Rim Diam: 3 11/16 in. (9.4 cm); Body Diam: 4 in. (10.2 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown, chips picked up, reinflated.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1498

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DescriptionTransparent decolored glass. Bicolored chips of translucent manganese-colored and opaque white glass. Free-blown. Chips picked up and melted into surface as vessel was blown out further. Rim lightly ground. Bulbous body. Base flattened with slight depression in center. Thin chips or slices of bicolored canes consisting of opaque white stripes, scrolls or circles at irregular intervals on a manganese-colored ground. Small chips on the bottom becoming larger toward rim. Thin glass. Small spherical bubbles.