U-Shaped Beaker on Foot

Place of OriginRome

Date3rd century CE

DimensionsH: 5 3/8 in. (13.6 cm); Rim Diam: 3 1/4 in. (8.2 cm); Base Diam: 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm)

MediumGlass, free blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1323

Not on View

DescriptionMedium thin glass. Pinprick and small vertically elongated bubbles, horizontal near rim. Transparent clear natural pale green tinted (10 G 6/2). Similarly colored thread. Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.4 cm. Applied thread. Tooled. Everted rim, rounded and thickened in flame. Tall u-shaped body with sides tapering to a point. Blown base with flaring sides and edge rounded in flame. Below rim, two revolutions of thread that overlap each other over a distance of ca. 4 cm. On body, two zigzag coils of glass form seven large ovals which can be felt as bulges on interior.

Published References"Ancient and Near Eastern Glass" in Toledo Museum of Art News, vol. 4, no. 2, (n.p.).