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beaker

Object NameKnobbed or Lotus-Bud Beaker

Made FromGlass

Date1-125

TechniqueMold-blown, ground

SizeOverall H: 12.8 cm, Diam (max): 6.3 cm

Accession Number59.1.80

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Exhibitions

Treasures in Glass

Glass from the Ancient World

Ennion and His Legacy: Mold-Blown Glass From Ancient Rome

Antikes Glas aus der Sammlung Ray Winfield Smith

Antikes Glas aus der Sammlung Ray Winfield Smith: Kurpfalzischen Museum Heidelberg

Place Made

Roman Empire

Physical DescriptionTransparent light amber, with few small bubbles; mold-blown (three-part mold with separate base plate); rim cracked off and ground. Beaker: truncated conical. Rim very slightly everted, cracked off and ground; wall straight, tapering from top to bottom; base flat; mold seams plainly visible. Mold-blown decoration: on wall, five horizontal rows of eight oval bosses ("lotus buds"), arranged in quincunx, each boss is rounded at top and pointed at bottom and has cross-section that rises in three "steps" from edge to center, bosses at top of wall are larger and less sharply-molded than those at bottom; on base, raised dot at center, with raised concentric ring.
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