Fragment of Bowl

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Object Name: 
Fragment of Bowl
Place Made: 
Accession Number: 
66.1.103
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 1.5 cm, W: 9 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1-25
Primary Description: 
Opaque light green glass, bubbly and pitted with some light brown weathering crust on surface; cast, lathe-cut and polished. Fragment preserves floor and lower vessel wall of a straight-sided bowl with a thick flanged foot decorated with a lathe-cut groove; the underside is elaborately profiled first by a wide band concave in profile which then steps down into a second band slightly convex in profile terminating at a narrow relief-cut ridge; the remainder of the interior is undecorated as far as preserved.
Department: 
Provenance: 
Sangiorgi, Sergio (Italian), Source
1966
Sangiorgi, Giorgio (Italian, 1886-1965), Former Collection
Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1979) illustrated, p. 150, #317, pl. 39; BIB# 29547