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Translucent pale blue green.
Knocked-off, outsplayed rim; short concave neck; bulging side curving in to thick, flat bottom with rounded convexity on interior.
Side tooled into sixteen irregular, vertical ribs.
Intact, except for two chips in rim; pinprick bubbles; dulling, deep pitting, and numerous patches of thick milky weathering and brilliant iridescence.
Bowl with ribbed sides.
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Title: Glass ribbed bowl
Period: Early Imperial
Date: mid-1st century CE
Culture: Roman
Medium: Glass; blown and tooled
Dimensions: greatest diameter: 2 5/16 in. (5.9 cm)
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881
Object Number: 81.10.76
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