goblet

Object NameGoblet with Snake-Thread Decoration

Made FromGlass

Date175-299

Techniqueblown, applied

SizeOverall H: 18.2 cm; Rim Diam: 7.6 cm

Accession Number79.1.65

Credit LineBequest of Jerome Strauss

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Place Made

Roman Empire; probably Rhineland

Physical DescriptionVery pale yellowish green transparent glass; blown (two gathers), applied. Goblet with tall, narrow bowl, short stem, and disk-shaped foot. Wall tapers and curves in at bottom; stem consists of solid knop; base, which was made from separate gather, is flat, with rounded edge and slightly recessed underside; pontil mark. Wall decorated with broad continuous band of snake-thread ornament, below continuous (?) horizontal trail; ornament consists of three groups of sinuous, asymmetrical trails, some of which terminate in spirals and others in roughly triangular, sometimes bifurcated “leaves”; all trails were tooled to flatten them and produce a corrugated effect of transverse ridges and depressions.
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