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Stemmed cup

Stemmed cup
 5th century CE-6th century CE

Medium
glass
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of the Australian Institute of Archaeology, 1967
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium
glass
Measurements
8.9 × 6.7 cm diameter
Place/s of Execution
Eastern Mediterranean
Accession Number
D19-1971
Department
Antiquities
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of the Australian Institute of Archaeology, 1967
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
Not on display
Physical description
Bluish-green stemmed cup with a vertical rim, the lip inclined inwards, thickened and rounded, the sides taper slightly downwards to near the base of the body where they curve more sharply to meet the stem; a short cylindrical stem and splayed, folded footstand with a tubular rim and lower fold pushed up to the top of the stem from below. The cup is decorated from the rim with closely-set curving mould-blown ribs, running clockwise, at first horizontally and then turning downwards and fading out towards bottom of body. The cup is blown, the ribbing is pre-moulded on a gob and expanded and twisted during inflation; the stem and footstand are tooled from the same gob as the body; no pontil-mark.

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