Glass dish
Colorless with faint yellow green tinge.
Tubular, flaring rim, folded out and down, with almost horizontal inner shoulder; S-shaped side to body, curving in to integral tubular base ring; slightly concave bottom, thicknened at center with small pontil scar.
Broken and repaired, cracked on one side and a large hole in the other; pinprick bubbles; pitting, iridescent weathering, and some limy encrustation around rim.
Tubular, flaring rim, folded out and down, with almost horizontal inner shoulder; S-shaped side to body, curving in to integral tubular base ring; slightly concave bottom, thicknened at center with small pontil scar.
Broken and repaired, cracked on one side and a large hole in the other; pinprick bubbles; pitting, iridescent weathering, and some limy encrustation around rim.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass dish
- Period: Late Imperial
- Date: 4th century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown
- Dimensions: H.: 2 in. (5.1 cm)
Diam.: 8 1/4 x 4 5/16 in. (21 x 11 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
- Object Number: 74.51.305
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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