Glass cameo bowl fragment

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 166

Translucent cobalt blue with overlay in opaque white.

Outsplayed rim with flat upper edge; cylindrical body with slightly convex curving side.

On interior, horizontal groove immediately below rim and another at top of side, forming a slightly convex band around inside of rim; on exterior, two raised horizontal lines at junction of rim and side. Also on exterior, in relief in white, head of youthful satyr, tipped slightly backward and drinking from a rhyton held in raised proper right hand; on the right, part of a leafy spray or branch.

Rim fragment with large chip at left, broken at sides and bottom; dulling, slight pitting, creamy weathering, especially on and around white overlay, and faint iridescence.

Rotary grinding marks on interior.

Glass cameo bowl fragment, Glass, Roman

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