Convex bowl on high base ring
Convex bowl on high base ring
Place of OriginAncient Rome
Dateabout 3rd century CE
DimensionsH: 2 3/4 in. (7 cm); Rim Diam: 6 in. (15.2 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown and tooled
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.727
Not on View
DescriptionThin glass. Numerous pinprick and small horizontally elongated bubbles. Blowing spirals from rim to base.
Transparent natural pale green (5 G 7/2).
Free-blown. Nearly circular wad of glass ca. 1.7 cm in diameter off center on underside of base.
Rim folded upward, outward, inward, and downward. Irregular convex sides. Pushed-in base with high outsplayed tubular base ring, pinched above to produce a solid fold and hollow at edge.
Late 4th-5th century CE
4th-5th century CE
1st century CE
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
about 3rd century CE
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
3rd-4th Century
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