Glass beaker
Translucent pale blue-green; trail in same color.
Everted rim with rounded lip; cylindrical body with vertical side, then curving in sharply to solid pad base; concave bottom with pontil mark.
Single horizontal trail wound once round upper body; side decorated with faint wavy ribs, becoming twenty-seven prominent ribs on side of base.
Intact; many bubbles; slight pitting, enamel-like creamy brown weathering, and brilliant iridescence.
Everted rim with rounded lip; cylindrical body with vertical side, then curving in sharply to solid pad base; concave bottom with pontil mark.
Single horizontal trail wound once round upper body; side decorated with faint wavy ribs, becoming twenty-seven prominent ribs on side of base.
Intact; many bubbles; slight pitting, enamel-like creamy brown weathering, and brilliant iridescence.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass beaker
- Period: Late Imperial
- Date: 4th century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown in a dip mold and trailed
- Dimensions: H.: 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of Elias Kempner, 1934
- Object Number: 34.132.35
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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