Unknown Artist
Rim fragment.
Colorless and translucent deep honey brown, with opaque white.
Applied coil rim with thick, rounded lip; slightly curving side, becoming thinner towards bottom.
Rim in brown with white spiral thread; body decorated with six parallel horizontal canes decorated with single spirally twisted threads.
Many pinprick bubbles; exterior polished; pitting of surface bubbles; jagged weathered edges; dulling and weathering on interior.
Credit: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
Late 1st century B.C.-early 1st century A.D.
Glass; cast
3.2 x 2.2 cm
91.1.1660
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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