Glass ribbed bowl

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Translucent blue green.
Vertical unworked rim; pronounced concave shoulder expanding downwards; convex sides sloping inwards towards projecting rounded base ring; bottom with concave depression and projecting knob at center. Two mold seams visible only on shoulder.
On sides, forty vertical rounded ribs (nineteen on one half of mold, twenty-one on the other).
Intact; pinprick and some large bubbles; faint dulling and iridescence, patches of brown encrustation and weathering on interior.

Greenish ribbed bowl.

Glass ribbed bowl, Glass, Roman

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