Glass bowl

Unknown

3rd century CE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Colorless with pale blue green tinge. Outsplayed rim, cracked off and ground flat; sack-shaped body, with straight side sloping outwards to rounded carination, then slanting in sharply; small, slightly concave bottom. On body, traces of a band of horizontal wheel-cut lines above carination. Intact; many pinprick bubbles; deep pitting, brilliant iridescence, and wweathering on exterior, some soil encrustation and large patches of brownish creamy weathering on interior.

Artist

Unknown

Date

3rd century CE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

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