Ribbed Bowl
second half of the 1st century BCE-first half of the 1st century CE
Description
Intact, ribbed bowl in translucent, cobalt glass. Rim flairs from a constricted shoulder; globular body with trail of opaque white wound around the shoulder and marvered into the surface; wheel-cut horizontal groove beneath the rim; narrow, vertical ribs have been tooled around the body. Classification: C. Isings, Roman Glass from Dated Finds (Djakarta: Groningen, 1957), form 17 Comparison: Corning Museum of Glass 58.1.35
Dimensions
6.2 x 10.6 cm (2 7/16 x 4 3/16 in.)
Provenance
Charles Eliot Norton and Richard Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1895), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1895.
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