Glass spoon
Shallow bowl with rounded, thickened edges, drawn out to a pointed tip with small tooling indent at apex; handle drawn up from bowl in a tubular, tapering rod, terminating in a lopsided knob, flattened and pushed in on the underside.
Intact; some pinprick bubbles; some dulling and iridescence, with large areas covered by brownish enamel-like weathering.
Yellowish spoon with long handle.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass spoon
- Period: Late Imperial
- Date: 4th century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown and tooled
- Dimensions: Overall: 7 x 1 1/2in. (17.8 x 3.9cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
- Object Number: 74.51.313
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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