Bulbous Cup on Stem (Wine glass)

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Bulbous Cup on Stem (Wine glass)

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date4th-5th century CE

DimensionsH: 3 11/16 in. (9.3 cm); Rim Diam: 3 in. (7.6 cm); Base Diam: 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown and tooled

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.856

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DescriptionThis bulbous cup on a stem, described as a wine glass, is made of medium thin glass with a few pinprick bubbles that appear horizontally elongated near the rim. The glass is transparent natural pale green (5 G 7/2). The vessel is free-blown with a visible pontil mark about 1.1 cm wide and faint cords below the rim. The rim is rounded and thickened in the flame. The body has bulbous walls with the greatest diameter at the rim. It sits on a hollow tubular stem joined to a high concave foot with a broad hollow pushed-in base ring. This vessel corresponds to Isings 1957, Form 111 (noted as dated too early).

Comparative ReferencesHayes, John W., Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1975, p. 105, no. 382 (a close parallel dated "Probably first half 5th century A.D.").