Glass beaker or lamp

Roman

Not on view

Colorless with pale green tinge; translucent cobalt blue blobs.
Thick, uneven rim, cracked off and ground, slightly outsplayed; convex side to body, tapering downwards; concave bottom.
Midway down side band of applied blobs, comprising three sets of two alternating patterns, one being a single large and thick blob, the other three smaller blobs arranged in a triangular pattern; above and below blobs, a single broad horizontal wheel-abraded band.
Intact, except for a small weathered chip in rim; a few bubbles in body, more pinprick bubbles and black impurities in blobs; dulling, faint iridescence, and patches of limy brown weathering.

Glass beaker or lamp, Glass, Roman

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