Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. An elegant bowl, free blown from translucent, blue-green glass to present a flared, ring-form foot, a rounded bottom, and tall walls that gradually expand to a broad rim with a slight lip. A thick, horizontal band adorns the area just below the rim, giving the ancient vessel a lovely collar that nicely complements its refined form. Note the shimmering areas of violet and golden iridescence that embellish the vessel's surface - stunning souvenirs from its epic journey through time and space! Size: 4.6" Diameter x 3.6" H (11.7 cm x 9.1 cm)

Ancient glass manufacture had begun in the 2nd millennium BCE in Mesopotamia and Egypt. The Greeks and Phoenicians advanced glass technology greatly in the latter 1st millennium BCE. In the early 1st century CE, Roman workshops began producing blown glass on a large scale. Eventually glass vessels came to replace a wide variety of pottery and metal wares in the ancient world. Ancient Roman glass was traded far beyond the Roman Empire. Roman glass vessels have been found in Scandinavia, India, and in Han Dynasty tombs in China.

Provenance: ex-private Virginia, USA collection, before 2000

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Some light scratches and minor stable hairline fissures near rim and foot on one side. Areas of flaking iridescence and weathering film. Otherwise, intact and excellent. Pontil mark on underside of base. A pontil scar or mark indicates that a vessel was free-blown, while the absence of such a mark suggests that the work was either mold-blown or that the mark was intentionally smoothed away or wore away over time.