Bell-Shaped Beaker on Base Ring

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Bell-Shaped Beaker on Base Ring

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date1st-2nd century CE

DimensionsH: 4 in. (10.1 cm); Rim Diam: 3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown (?), wheel cut

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.847

Not on View

DescriptionThis bell-shaped beaker is made of medium thin glass containing pinprick bubbles and one larger bubble near the carination. The glass is transparent clear natural grayish green (5 G 5/2). It was likely free-blown and wheel-cut, with no pontil mark visible. The rim is unworked but was knocked off very evenly. The concave walls widen into an inverted bell shape with a carination approximately 2.3 cm above the base. The concave domed base includes a narrow pushed-in base ring formed by tooling. The exterior is decorated with three horizontal bands of wheel-cut incisions: one at the rim, one on the upper body, and one below the middle of the body. This vessel corresponds to Isings 1957, Form 36 b.

Published ReferencesHayes, John W., Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1975, fig. 137, p. 57.