Bulbous Bowl
Bulbous Bowl
Place of OriginAncient Rome
Date1st century CE
DimensionsH: 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm); Rim Diam: 3 1/8 in. (8.0 cm); Max Diam: 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown and tooled, wheel cut.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.824
Not on View
DescriptionVery thin glass. A few small spherical bubbles.
Transparent decolored glass.
Free-blown; cut.
Rim lightly ground. Upper half of body near cylindrical with sides tapering to concave base.
Between rim and greatest diameter, two shallow wheel-cut grooves and two wheel-cut incisions. From top to bottom: a groove, an incision, a groove, and an incision.
CLASSIFICATION: Isings 1957, Form 12; Vessberg 1952, Beaker type A III, pl. III 21 (variation).
1st century CE
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