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
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