Ribbed Bowl

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Object Name: 
Ribbed Bowl
Place Made: 
Roman Empire
Accession Number: 
79.1.145
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 4.4 cm, Diam: 16.3 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
25 BCE-75 CE
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Jerome Strauss
Primary Description: 
Ribbed Bowl. Transparent bluish green glass, slightly bubbly, some iridescence on interior, exterior unweathered; sagged, tooled, and polished. Rim rounded by grinding, straight sides bend down and in to shallow body with flat, slightly kicked base, twenty-five ribs taper toward bottom, interior polished, exterior fire-polished.

More Info

Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
Safani, Esteban, Former Collection
Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Source
1979
Category: 
Roman
Color: 
blue
green
Technique: 
hot-working
polishing
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (1)

A Cup of Kindness
Venue(s)
General Foods Collection Gallery 1984-02-01 through 1984-05-01

Publications (1)

Ancient and Islamic Glass: Selections from the Corning Museum of Glass (2019) illustrated, pp. 50-51;