Glass bowl
Unknown Artist
Colorless.
Broad horizontal rim with rounded lip and folded tubular bulge; convex side, tapering downwards to bottom with deep kick and central circular pontil mark; tubular base ring at junction of side and bottom.
Intact; pinprick bubbles; most of surface covered with brown weathering, pitting, and iridescence.
Credit: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881
4th century A.D.
Glass; blown
3.5 x 14.8 cm
81.10.48
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
Where you'll find this
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Permanent collection
