Cylindrical Bowl

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Cylindrical Bowl

Place of OriginRoman Empire

Date1st century CE

DimensionsH: 2 in. (5.1 cm); Rim Diam: 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm); Body Diam: 2 29/32 in. (7.4 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown, tooled, and wheel cut.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.652

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DescriptionThis cylindrical bowl (Isings 1957, Form 12, variation) is free-blown, tooled, and wheel-cut from medium thin glass. It is transparent decolored glass with a light greenish grey tinge near the rim (5 GY 6/1). A few pinprick bubbles are visible. The rim is ground. The cylindrical body sits on a flattened base with a slight central depression. Decorative details include four shallow wheel-cut grooves and three wheel-cut incisions arranged from rim to base: a groove, two incisions, three grooves, and one incision.