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Glass ribbed bowl

Translucent light blue green.

Knocked-off, uneven, ground rim; concave neck; globular body curving in to thick, flat bottom.

Side tooled into fifteen irregular, vertical ribs, with arched projections around shoulder above tops.

Intact; pinprick bubbles; dulling, patches of brownish weathering, and faint iridescence.

Greenish ribbed bowl.

Credit: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917

Mid-1st century A.D.
Glass; blown and tooled
7.6 x 7.6cm
17.194.186
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018

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