Glass beaker

Roman, Rhenish

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Colorless; translucent cobalt blue and honey yellow blobs.
Uneven vertical rim, cracked off and ground, slightly outsplayed; tall, convex side to body, tapering downwards; concave bottom.
Immediately below rim, a single wheel-cut horizontal line; below, a band comprising two wheel-cut horizontal lines with wheel-abraded lines between them; around middle and lower part of side a band of applied blobs, comprising two irregular horizontal lines of four alternating sets of two blobs of the same color.
Complete, but many internal cracks; a few pinprick and larger bubbles; dulling, faint iridescence, limy encrustation, and weathering.

Glass beaker, Glass, Roman, Rhenish

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