Glass ribbed bowl

Unknown

mid-1st century CE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Translucent honey brown; trial in opaque white. Knocked-off, ground rim; short concave neck; squat globular body curving in to broad, thick, flat bottom. Trail wound spirally from bottom around body, with one broad patch in side between ribs; sides tooled into eighteen, shallow, irregular, vertical ribs. Complete, except for large chip in rim; a few bubbles; dulling, faint iridescence, weathering of trail between ribs, and one patch of creamy brown weathering on interior.

Artist

Unknown

Date

mid-1st century CE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881