Glass ribbed bowl

Unknown

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

Translucent blue; trail in opaque white. Outsplayed rim, with cracked off and ground lip; short concave neck; globular body curving in to shallow convex bottom. Trail applied as a large blob and wound spirally on bottom and then up side to neck; side tooled into seventeen irregular, vertical or slanting ribs. Intact, but parts of trail missing through weathering; many bubbles, some large; pitting of surface bubbles, dulling, iridescence, and patches of creamy weathering, especially around ribs. Bright blue bowl with white thread decoration, vertical ribs.

Artist

Unknown

Date

mid-1st century CE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891