Bowl

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Object Name: 
Bowl
Place Made: 
Roman Empire
Eastern Mediterranean
Accession Number: 
79.1.208
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 5.7 cm; Mouth Diam: 8.4 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
300-399
Credit Line: 
Gift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation
Primary Description: 
Bowl. Transparent pale green; greenish blue trail. Blown; applied. Bowl: bell-shaped. Rim vertical, with rounded lip and hollow bulge at junction with wall; base has splayed tubular foot-ring made by folding, and dome at center of floor; prominent pontil mark. On wall, one continuous horizontal trail above one continuous zigzag trail.

More Info

Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
Strauss Memorial Foundation, Ruth Bryan, Source
1979-03-25
Category: 
Roman
Color: 
transparency
greenish blue
pale
green
Technique: 
blown glass
applied decoration
Material: 
glass

Publications (1)

Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, Volume Two (2001) illustrated, p. 140, pl. 648; BIB# 58895