Glass ribbed bowl

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Translucent deep purple; trail in opaque white.
Outsplayed rim, with cracked off and ground lip; short concave neck; globular body curving in to flat, thick bottom with slight kick on interior.
Trail applied as a large irregular blob and wound spirally on bottom and then up side to neck; side tooled into twenty slender, vertical ribs.
Intact, but parts of trail on body missing through weathering; some large and pinprick bubbles; some pitting, dulling, and faint iridescence.

With enamel decoration and vertical threads on body.

Glass ribbed bowl, Glass, Roman

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