Glass beaker

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 169

Colorless with blue green tinge; foot ring in translucent cobalt blue.
Outsplayed, knocked-off rim; tall cylindrical body, tapering slightly downwards, then slanting inwards; applied solid foot ring, made by applying trail around edge of bottom; low kick in bottom.
Side decorated with continuous band of closely spaced shallow ribs in a downward spiral from left to right, extending from below rim to point where body slants inwards; in plain band below rim and above ribs, two horizontal wheel-abraded lines; on slanting lower section of body, a band of two horizontal wheel-abraded lines and then below another single horizontal wheel-abraded line.
Broken and repaired, with some small holes in lower body; pinprick bubbles; dulling, limy encrustation, weathering, and iridescence.

Glass beaker, Glass, Roman

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