Beaker with ground rim, Rome, 14-50 AD
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This tall, elegant beaker was blown from transparent glass with a slight yellow-green cast. The bottom is perfectly smooth, with a slight depression, but no visible pontil mark. The body is generally a truncated cone, with gentle flaring for the bottom half, and almost straight sides for the top half. The rim presents an s-shaped profile with a perfectly horizontal ground edge (the edge exhibits pitting and weathering, confirming that this is not a newly exposed surface). The outside surface is decorated with five horizontal cut grooves: single grooves below the rim and in the lower third of the body, and a band of three equidistant grooves two thirds up the side wall. Beginning of the Roman Empire, from Emperor Tiberius. Rome, 14-50 AD. Subtle golden iridescence. A few small spherical bubbles in glass. Parallel Ernesto Wolf Collection #22 “Beaker with ground rim, height 9.8 cm, diameter rim 6.4 cm, thickness rim 0.13, weight 57 g” (Stern 2001:80). Bibliography (for this item)Fortuna Fine Arts, Ltd.,1991 Shining Vessels: Ancient Glass from Greek, Roman, and Islamic Times. Fortuna Fine Arts, Ltd., New York, NY. (36 # 50) Stern, E. Marianne 2001 Roman, Byzantine, and Early Medieval Glass; 10 BCE-700 CE; Ernesto Wolf Collection. Hatje Cantz Publishers, Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany. (80) |
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