Bowl / Glass

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 1967.01.0023
Object Name: Bowl
Lot: Ruthven, Dr. Alexander G.
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Glass vessels
Materials: Glass
Height: 4.6 - 4.9
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Shallow bowl of transparent green glass. Intact.Bubbly blowing spirals and sandy impurities. Incipient iridescence.Bowl’s hollow rim made by folding in and up, then out down and under. Walls curve gently down to floor. Pad base re-worked into conical; foot with diagonal tooling marks. Foot pushed up into floor. Pronounced kick. Reamer and pontil marks.
Subjects: undecorated
Verbatim Date: 5th C AD
Verbatim Provenance: Egypt
Countermark: no
Type Category: Artifact

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 1967.01.0023
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1967.01.0023/1967_01_0023

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