Straight-Sided Bowl on Base Ring

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Straight-Sided Bowl on Base Ring

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date4th century CE

DimensionsH: 3 in. (7.6 cm); Rim Diam: 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm); Base Diam: 2 3/16 in. (5.5 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.860

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DescriptionThis straight-sided bowl on a base ring is classified as Isings 1957, Form 87 and Vessberg 1952, bowls C II a. It is made of medium thin glass that is transparent with a natural pale green tint (5 G 7/2). The glass contains a few pinprick and small bubbles, with one medium-sized vertically elongated bubble in the wall and horizontally elongated bubbles in the rim. The bowl is free-blown with a pontil mark approximately 1.0 cm wide. An added thin coil just below the rim is completely melted into the surface. The rim is horizontally outsplayed and rounded in flame. The sides are straight with a very slight taper toward the base. The high domed pushed-in base has flaring sides and a hollow tubular base ring.

Published ReferencesHayes, John W., Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1975, p. 80, no. 297. (A close parallel dated "About late 3rd-early 4th century A.D.").