Fundamentally important in the product line of nearly any glassblower are tumblers: simple, small- to medium-sized drinking vessels. By the early decades of the first century A.D., Roman glassworkers produced these objects with either a furnace-finished rim, as in this example, or a cracked-off rim (Video 45). The video shows the labor-intensive nature of producing this kind of rim.
Beaker with Furnace-Opened Rim
Date | 1st to 2nd century A.D. |
Dimensions | H. 8.2 cm, D. (rim) 8.2 cm |
Collection Link | https://glasscollection.cmog.org/objects/6690 |
Accession Number | 68.1.72 (CMOG) |
Credit | The Corning Museum of Glass (Cat. 163), formerly in the Strauss Collection (S1735). Gift of Mr. Strauss. |
Video Type | full |