Glass beaker
Colorless with pale green tinge.
Rim outsplayed, cracked off and uneven; vertical side, cylindrical at top, then shaped into a rough square with hollow corners; square, pushed-in bottom with bulging, rounded edge and small pontil mark at center.
Below rim, two horizontal bands of wheel-abraded lines; on body, four long indents, forming a star-like shape to interior.
Intact, except for small weathered chip in rim and crack in lower body; pinprick and larger bubbles; soil encrustation and root marks covering most of surfaces, and faint iridescence.
Rim outsplayed, cracked off and uneven; vertical side, cylindrical at top, then shaped into a rough square with hollow corners; square, pushed-in bottom with bulging, rounded edge and small pontil mark at center.
Below rim, two horizontal bands of wheel-abraded lines; on body, four long indents, forming a star-like shape to interior.
Intact, except for small weathered chip in rim and crack in lower body; pinprick and larger bubbles; soil encrustation and root marks covering most of surfaces, and faint iridescence.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass beaker
- Period: Mid Imperial
- Date: 2nd–3rd century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown, tooled, and cut
- Dimensions: H.: 4 1/4 x 2 1/8 x 1 15/16 in. (10.8 x 5.4 x 4.9 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881
- Object Number: 81.10.204
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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