Glass beaker or lamp
Colorless with pale green tinge; translucent cobalt blue blobs.
Thick, uneven rim, cracked off and ground, slightly outsplayed; convex side to body, tapering downwards; concave bottom.
Midway down side band of applied blobs, comprising three sets of two alternating patterns, one being a single large and thick blob, the other three smaller blobs arranged in a triangular pattern; above and below blobs, a single broad horizontal wheel-abraded band.
Intact, except for a small weathered chip in rim; a few bubbles in body, more pinprick bubbles and black impurities in blobs; dulling, faint iridescence, and patches of limy brown weathering.
Thick, uneven rim, cracked off and ground, slightly outsplayed; convex side to body, tapering downwards; concave bottom.
Midway down side band of applied blobs, comprising three sets of two alternating patterns, one being a single large and thick blob, the other three smaller blobs arranged in a triangular pattern; above and below blobs, a single broad horizontal wheel-abraded band.
Intact, except for a small weathered chip in rim; a few bubbles in body, more pinprick bubbles and black impurities in blobs; dulling, faint iridescence, and patches of limy brown weathering.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass beaker or lamp
- Period: Late Imperial
- Date: 4th century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown, blobbed, and cut
- Dimensions: H.: 3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm)
Diam.: 10 3/4 in. (27.3 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881
- Object Number: 81.10.167
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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