Carinated Beaker on Base Ring

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Carinated Beaker on Base Ring

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date1st-2nd century CE

DimensionsH: 4 1/16 in. (10.3 cm); Rim Diam: 2 13/16 in. (7.2 cm); Body Diam: 2 7/8 in. (7.4 cm); Base Diam: 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.843

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. Pinprick bubbles. Blowing spirals. Transparent grayish-green (10 GY 5/2). Free-blown. No pontil mark. Cut. Ground rim with slight bulge above constriction. Straight sides widening toward carination just below center of vessel and tapering from there down to base. Base probably meant to be as in rest of group, but unsuccessful. Three bands of horizontal wheel-cut incisions.

Published ReferencesHayes, John W., Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1975, p. 57, no. 136. (A close parallel dated "Probably late 1st-early 2nd century A.D.").