Beaker with Trailed-on Decoration

Object Name: 
Beaker with Trailed-on Decoration

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Object Name: 
Beaker with Trailed-on Decoration
Place Made: 
Roman Empire
probably Rhineland
Accession Number: 
79.1.248
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 15.5 cm, Diam (max): 6.2 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
200-399
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Jerome Strauss
Primary Description: 
Beaker. Semitransparent green; blown, applied. Narrow straight-sided. Rim plain, with rounded lip; wall vertical, curving in at bottom. Below rim, single horizontal thread; below thread, continuous frieze of four tall lozenges; each joined to the next by a horizontal bar; at the top of each lozenge, a loop; lower extremities of lozenges drawn downward so that they project from the side.

More Info

Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Source
1979
Category: 
Roman
Color: 
transparency
green
Technique: 
blown glass
applied decoration
Material: 
glass

Publications (2)

Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, Volume Two (2001) illustrated, p. 146, pl. 659; BIB# 58895
Recent Important Acquisitions, 8 (1966) illustrated, pp. 130-131, #10; BIB# AI97742