Glass dish
Translucent green.
Tubular, slightly outsplayed rim, folded out, down, and in, forming a prominent flanged edge to side; convex curving side sloping in to applied solid foot ring with diagonal tooling marks around its outer side; slightly convex bottom.
Around the flanged edge to rim, a single horizontal groove.
Broken and repaired, with only one small hole; some bubbles, elongated in rim; thick, limy encrustation, dulling, and slight iridescence.
Greenish, colored blown glass.
Tubular, slightly outsplayed rim, folded out, down, and in, forming a prominent flanged edge to side; convex curving side sloping in to applied solid foot ring with diagonal tooling marks around its outer side; slightly convex bottom.
Around the flanged edge to rim, a single horizontal groove.
Broken and repaired, with only one small hole; some bubbles, elongated in rim; thick, limy encrustation, dulling, and slight iridescence.
Greenish, colored blown glass.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass dish
- Period: Late Imperial
- Date: 4th century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown
- Dimensions: Diam.: 15 3/4 in. (40 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.95
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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