Primary Description:
Translucent deep reddish purple glass; probably slumped over mold; cut, ground, and polished. Shallow dish, rim plain with top ground flat; wall curves down and in, with three small, irregular indentations below lip and even smaller irregularities elsewhere; base has low foot ring, bottom ground flat; no pontil mark. Interior decorated in relief with mule and rider surrounded by four animals. Mule is shown in profile, walking to left, with right foreleg raised and other legs straight; rider is shown in twisted perspective, with head in profile but torso rendered frontally. Animals are ibexes running from right to left; lion walking from left to right; snake, seen from above, gliding from right to left. Mule, rider, and animals are in relief of uniform thickness, without raised borders; background is plain. Details are indicated by linear cuts, almost all of which are short and straight.