Spherical Bowl with Three Handles

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Spherical Bowl with Three Handles

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date1st-2nd century CE

DimensionsH: 3 5/16 in. (8.5 cm); Rim Diam: 4 1/4 in. (10.9 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown, tooled, three applied handles.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.730

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DescriptionNatural light green body with applied handles; hemispherical shape, indented slightly below rim; three small handles applied below rim, with crimped trails continuing toward the bottom. Transparent natural pale green (10 G 6/2). Free-blown, no pontil mark. Everted rim with convex sides and irregular unworked edge bent out from constriction below. Spherical body with greatest diameter above middle. Base round. Three loop handles, 1.5 to 2.3 cm below rim, bent downward and ending in a corrugated vertical trail. CLASSIFICATION REMARKS Rim and shapre reminiscent of Isings 96, but finishing as a lamp with round base is different. Same shape (without handles: Plate-Horster 1976, fig. 149 (wrong date). On history of this type of lamp, parallels etc. check Stern 1985 (AIHV, 39-43) on pseudo snake-thread lamp. Check Crowfoot and Harden 1931, 205 for lamp types group 3; Bagatti & Milik 1958, 148, fig. 35, no. 12. See also Cat. Nos.: EXHIBITIONS PUBLISHED +++