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Translucent cobalt blue.
Rim folded out and down, forming rounded, partially tubular collar to mouth with projecting lower lip; bulging sides curving in to low flaring base ring with flattened bottom edge; thick bottom, flattened at center.
Intact, but chipped around bottom of base ring; a few pinprick bubbles and some tiny inclusions; slight weathering and encrustation around lower lip of rim.
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Title: Glass bowl
Period: Mid Imperial
Date: 2nd–3rd century CE
Culture: Roman
Medium: Glass; blown
Dimensions:
H.: 1 11/16 in. (4.3 cm)
Diam.: 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm)
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Object Number: 17.194.171
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