Glass ribbed bowl

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Translucent blue; trail in opaque white.
Outsplayed rim, with cracked off and ground lip; short concave neck; globular body curving in to shallow convex bottom.
Trail applied as a large blob and wound spirally on bottom and then up side to neck; side tooled into seventeen irregular, vertical or slanting ribs.
Intact, but parts of trail missing through weathering; many bubbles, some large; pitting of surface bubbles, dulling, iridescence, and patches of creamy weathering, especially around ribs.

Bright blue bowl with white thread decoration, vertical ribs.

Glass ribbed bowl, Glass, Roman

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