Glass beaker

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Translucent yellowish green; blobs in translucent deep turquoise blue.
Uneven outsplayed and cracked-off rim; cylindrical body, then curving in to slightly pushed-in bottom.
Around body, horizontal band of blobs comprising three larger blobs interspersed with smaller ones arranged as two rows of six and one of seven; three extra small blobs accidentally applied, two above and one below band; above and below blobbed decoration, a single horizontal wheel-abraded line.
Intact; pinprick and larger bubbles; dulling, slight pitting, enamel-like brown weathering, and some soil encrustation.

Glass beaker, Glass, Roman

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