Glass beaker
Colorless; translucent cobalt blue and honey yellow blobs.
Uneven vertical rim, cracked off and ground, slightly outsplayed; tall, convex side to body, tapering downwards; concave bottom.
Immediately below rim, a single wheel-cut horizontal line; below, a band comprising two wheel-cut horizontal lines with wheel-abraded lines between them; around middle and lower part of side a band of applied blobs, comprising two irregular horizontal lines of four alternating sets of two blobs of the same color.
Complete, but many internal cracks; a few pinprick and larger bubbles; dulling, faint iridescence, limy encrustation, and weathering.
Uneven vertical rim, cracked off and ground, slightly outsplayed; tall, convex side to body, tapering downwards; concave bottom.
Immediately below rim, a single wheel-cut horizontal line; below, a band comprising two wheel-cut horizontal lines with wheel-abraded lines between them; around middle and lower part of side a band of applied blobs, comprising two irregular horizontal lines of four alternating sets of two blobs of the same color.
Complete, but many internal cracks; a few pinprick and larger bubbles; dulling, faint iridescence, limy encrustation, and weathering.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass beaker
- Period: Late Imperial
- Date: 4th century CE
- Culture: Roman, Rhenish
- Medium: Glass; blown, blobbed, and cut
- Dimensions: H.: 4 13/16 in. (12.3 cm)
Diam.: 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Fletcher Fund, 1959
- Object Number: 59.11.10
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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