A Roman pale bluish-green glass bowl, or “zarte rippenschale”, second half of 1st century A.D., with a cut-off rim and nineteen ribs pinched out of the curved vessel wall, 6.3cm high, 7.7cm diamProvenance: Property of a Lady Note: These delicate drinking bowls are found on sites across the early Roman Empire and were either made in plain natural colours or in coloured glass, especially blue, purple or amber, and further enhanced with opaque white spiral trailing, cf. D.B. Whitehouse, Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, Vol. 2, Corning, NY 2001, pp. 202-205, nos 758-65Please refer to department for condition report