Bulbous Bowl

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date3rd-4th century CE

DimensionsH: 2 5/8 in. (6.6 cm); Rim Diam: 3 9/16 in. (9.1 cm); Body Diam: 3 1/16 in. (7.8 cm); Base Diam: 1 9/16 in. (4.4 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1327

Not on View

DescriptionMedium thin glass. Pinprick bubbles. Transparent natural pale green (5 G 7/2). Moderate blue green thread (5 BG 4/6). Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.1 cm. Carefully added thread. Outsplayed rim, rounded in flame. Curved walls sloping toward base. High-domed, pushed-in base with flaring sides and hollow tubular base ring. On lower half of body, six revolutions of thread above a neat zigzag pattern. Thread decoration begins above base with a fifteen-fold zigzag from right to left and continuing with a simple trail for one and a quarter revolutions. After an interval of ca. 1.0 cm a second thread continues the revolution. CLASSIFICATION: Isings, 1957, Form 87 (variation)

Published ReferencesPuma, Richard Daniel de, Art In Roman Life: Villa to Grave, Rome, L'erma di Bretschneider, 2009, p. 94, no. 97.