Goblet-Shaped Vessel on Stem (Wine glass)

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Goblet-Shaped Vessel on Stem (Wine glass)

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date4th-5th century CE

DimensionsH: 3 9/16 in. (9 cm); Rim Diam: 2 9/16 in. (6.5 cm); Base Diam: 1 5/16 in. (4.3 cm)

MediumGlass; expanded mold-blown, tooled, applied decoration.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.854

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DescriptionThis goblet-shaped vessel on a short stem, sometimes described as a wine glass, is made of medium thin glass with numerous pinprick bubbles. The glass is transparent dusky yellow (near 5 Y 6/4) with a similarly colored applied thread. The body was blown into a one-part vertically ribbed and grooved mold and then expanded by reblowing. A pontil mark approximately 1.0 cm wide is visible. The horizontally outsplayed rim is rounded in the flame. The U-shaped body has slightly convex sides that taper to a short hollow tubular stem. The high pushed-in base has a hollow tubular base ring, and the center of the base is pushed up through the stem to form a small convex bulb inside the bottom of the cup. The body displays twenty-seven vertical indistinct expanded mold-blown corrugations, and five revolutions of very thin thread are applied below the rim.