Glass hemispherical ribbed bowl

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Translucent pale blue-green.

Slightly flaring rim with angular top edge and inward-sloping band below; convex side curving in to uneven flat bottom.

On interior, band of two fine horizontal grooves on lower part of side; on exterior, twenty-seven long, slender ribs, some vertical, others slanting, with flattened tops, tapering downwards and extaneding onto outer edge of bottom.

Intact, but one long crack running from rim down side; many pinprick and one large bubble; patches of deep pitting, dulling, creamy brown weathering, and iridescence.

Cast, with ribbed sides.

Glass hemispherical ribbed bowl, Glass, Roman

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