Glass beaker
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.
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.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass beaker
- Period: Late Imperial
- Date: 4th century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown in a dip mold, trailed, and cut
- Dimensions: H. 6 1/4 in. (15.9 cm)
diameter 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881
- Object Number: 81.10.192
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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