Stemmed Lamp
Stemmed Lamp
Place of OriginAncient Rome
Date3rd century CE (?)
DimensionsH: 4 1/8 in. (10.8 cm); Rim Diam: 3 3/16 in. (8.05 cm); Diam (body): 2 7/8 in. (7.4 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown, tooled
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.871
Not on View
DescriptionThin glass. Small ovoid bubbles in body, vertically elongated bubbles in stem.
Natural light green; flared rim; hemispherical bowl; cylindrical stem with rounded bottom.
Transparent yellow green (between 5 GY 5/2 and 10 Y 5/4).
Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 0.8 cm. Tool marks at junction of stem and upper body.
Everted rim, rounded in flame. Bowl-shaped upper body with greatest diameter below rim; walls of upper body curve strongly into long, narrow stem.
possibly 3rd Century
Probably first half of sixth century
5th-7th century CE
Probably first half of first century
Probably mid-first century
2nd-3rd Century CE
Probably 17th century
3rd-4th century CE
Probably 3rd Century CE
4th century CE
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
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