Beaker with Indentations on Base Ring

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Beaker with Indentations on Base Ring

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date1st-2nd century CE

DimensionsH: 3 7/16 in. (8.8 cm); Rim Diam: 2 3/4 in. (7.0 cm); Base Diam: 1 7/16 in. (3.7 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown, tooled, and wheel cut

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.839

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DescriptionThis beaker, classified as Isings 1957, Form 35, is made of medium thin glass with a few small bubbles. The glass is transparent natural light olive (10 Y 5/4). The vessel was free-blown and finished with tooling and wheel-cut decoration. It has an everted rim with convex sides and an unworked edge bent outward from a constriction below. The tall bulbous body reaches its greatest diameter at the center and sits on a concave domed base with a narrow pushed-in tubular base ring. A single wheel-cut incision encircles the exterior of the rim, while the body features six elongated oval indentations.

Published ReferencesGrose, David, "Ancient Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 20, no. 3, 1978, p. 78, 82, repr. fig. 16.