Glass ribbed bowl
Translucent honey yellow; trail in opaque white.
Knocked-off, ground rim; short concave neck; horizontal bulging collar below; squat globular body curving in to almost flat bottom.
Trail wound spirally from bottom around body to neck, thick at bottom, but fine and thin at top; twenty-seven, shallow, slightly irregular, vertical ribs, extending from bulge below neck to undercurve of side.
Intact, except for one small, weathered chip in rim; a few bubbles; dulling and pitting of surface bubbles, most of surfaces covered with thick white weathering and iridescence.
Knocked-off, ground rim; short concave neck; horizontal bulging collar below; squat globular body curving in to almost flat bottom.
Trail wound spirally from bottom around body to neck, thick at bottom, but fine and thin at top; twenty-seven, shallow, slightly irregular, vertical ribs, extending from bulge below neck to undercurve of side.
Intact, except for one small, weathered chip in rim; a few bubbles; dulling and pitting of surface bubbles, most of surfaces covered with thick white weathering and iridescence.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass ribbed bowl
- Period: Early Imperial
- Date: mid-1st century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown, trailed, and tooled
- Dimensions: H.: 2 5/16 in. (5.9 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.279
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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