Tall Calyx-Shaped Beaker on Foot

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Tall Calyx-Shaped Beaker on Foot

Place of OriginRoman Empire

Date4th-5th century CE

DimensionsH: 3 15/16 in. (10.0 cm); Rim Diam: 2 in. (5.1 cm); Base Diam: 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.850

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DescriptionThis tall calyx-shaped beaker on foot is made of medium thin glass with a few pinprick bubbles and black specks, along with visible cords in the upper part of the body. The glass is transparent pale green (near 5 G 7/2) with a grayish blue-green thread (near 5 BG 5/2). The vessel was free-blown with a pontil mark approximately 1.0 cm wide and a reamer mark underneath. The rim is rounded and thickened in the flame. The inverted conical body sits on a high pushed-in domed base with a hollow tubular base ring. Around the center of the body, five revolutions of thin spiral thread are applied.

Published ReferencesHayes, John W., Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1975, p. 104, no. 379 (A close parallel dated "4th century A.D.").