goblet

Object NameGoblet

Made FromGlass

Date100-299

TechniqueBlown, applied

SizeOverall H: 12.6 cm, Diam (max): 7.8 cm

Accession Number72.1.5

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Exhibitions

Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass

Place Made

Roman Empire; Germany

Physical DescriptionAlmost colorless glass, with opaque white and opaque blue trails; blown, applied decoration. Conical shape beaker, rim plain, reworked; wall tapers, curving inward at bottom; short, applied cylindrical stem, foot almost flat, with tooled edges; pontil scar; decorated with two opaque white and two opaque blue serrated "snake thread" trails, each making an abstract curvilinear design, between two horizontal blue trails, one below rim and other shortly above bottom of wall.
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