A Roman Ribbed Glass Bowl Roman, Early Imperial Period, 1st century A.D. A thick ribbed bowl of pale, aqua-colored glass, with a slight concave base and thick, radiating ribs around the base which terminate just below the smooth rounded rim.Height: 5.4 cm, Diam: 11.5 cm. Reference: For a similar example, please see The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 81.10.39: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/245196 Literature: Froehner, Wilhelm. 1879. La verrerie antique: déscription de la Collection Charvet. no. 8, pp. 72, 78, pl. XVIII: 86, Le Pecq: Jules Charvet. Richter, Gisela M. A. 1911. "The Room of Ancient Glass." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 6(6) Supp.: pp. 13, 16, fig. 11e. Eisen, Gustavus A. and Fahim Joseph Kouchakji. 1927. Glass: Its Origin, History, Chronology, Technic and Classification to the Sixteenth Century, Vol. 1. pp. 181, 212–3, pl. 40, New York: W. E. Rudge. Provenance: Private British Collection