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_{Transparent glass bowl of fruit from wall painting
in Bedroom M of the Villa Boscoreale, an ancient
Roman villa, located in the town of Boscoreale,
about two kilometers outside Pompeii in Campania.}

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Types of vessels:

alabastron
amphora
amphoriskos
ampulla
aryballos
askos
beaker
bottle
bowl
cage cup
cone
cameo
cantharus
cup
dish
dropper flask - see sprinkler.
flask
Frontinus bottle
goblet
guttus
Hofheim cup
honeycomb bowl
jar
jug
kohl tube
krateriskos
kylix
lenticular bottle
lentoid
mastos
modiolus
oinochoe
patella
phiale
phiale mesomphalos
polycandela
pyxis
scyphus
spouted bottle
sprinkler
trulla
tube
candlestick unguentarium
unguentarium
urn

Features of technique, style and decoration:

base ring
bifurcated handle
colored blobs
blue dots - see colored blobs.
blue zigzag
buckle - see neck coil.
carinated
coil
collar rim
colorless
core-formed
crinkly coil
dots - see colored blobs.
cut-out fold - see projecting roll.
diachroism
dolphin handle
double mould-blown
embedded thread
engraved
everted rim
facet-cut
faience
feathered pattern - see embedded thread.
feet - see pinched toes.
fine-grained decoration
fire-closed
fire rounded rim
flattened rim
flecks
folded stemmed foot
folded rim
free-blown
freestanding zigzag
gold-band
gold-glass
handle
horizontal grooves - see engraved.
indents
intaglio
kicked bottom
looped trail
lug - see pinched ribs.
marvered
moile
mosaic glass
mold-blown
mouth - see rim.
natural blue green glass
neck coil
nicked trail
nipt - see pinched projections.
overlay
strongly colored glass
pattern-blown
pattern mold - see pattern-blowing.
pincered trail
pinched projections
pinched warts - see pinched projections.
pinched ribs and lugs
pinched toes
pinched feet - see pinched toes.
piriform
pontil
pontil mark
pontil scar - see pontil mark.
projecting roll
prunt
pushed-in hollow base ring - see base ring.
pushed in solid base ring - see base ring.
reeded handle
ribbed handle
ribs
rim
rim coil
ring-shaped pontil mark - see pontil mark.
rod-formed
scratching
serpentineform trails - see snake-thread.
shards
snake-thread
spectacle pattern
spiral coil
spiral ribbing
spiral trail - see spiral coil.
spiral thread - see embedded thread and thread-wound.
thread
threaded - see thread and embedded thread.
thread-wound
toes - see pinched toes.
trifurcated handle
tubular pontil mark - see pontil mark.
U-shaped mouth
wavy coil - see crinkly coil.
wavy thread - see crinkly coil.
wheel-abraded
wheel-cut
wheel incised lines - see wheel-cut.
zigzag - see blue zigzag and freestanding zigzag.

Conditions of preservation:

complete
intact
crizzled
iridescence
weathering

References:

Allen, Denise. Roman Glass in Britain. (Buckinghamshire, 1998)
Auth, Susan. Ancient Glass at the Newark Museum. (Newark, 1977)
Carboni, Stefano. Glass from Islamic Lands: The Al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait National Museum. (New York, 2001)
Carboni, Stefano and David Whitehouse. Glass of the Sultans. (New York, 2001)
Christie's Sale 5 - 6 Mar 1985. Ancient Glass Formerly the Kofler-Truniger Collection.
Christies Sale 9 July 1991. Wolkenburg Collection.*
Davidson, Sandra. Conservation and Restoration of Glass. (Cornwall, 2003)
Ettinghausen, Richard. Ancient Glass in the Freer Gallery of Art. (Smithsonian Institution, 1962)
Flemming, Stuart J. Roman Glass, Reflections on Cultural Change. (Warminster, 1999)
Goldstein, Sidney M. Pre-Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass. (Corning, 1979)
Grose, David F. Toledo Museum of Art, Early Ancient Glass. (New York, 1989)
Harden, Donald. Catalog of the Constable-Maxwell Collection of Ancient Glass. (London: Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co, 1979)
Harden, Donald. Ancient Glass, I: Pre-Roman, The Archaeological Journal, Volume CXXV, 1969 (reprinted)
Hayes, John. Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum. (Toronto, 1975)
Isings, Clasina. Roman Glass From Dated Finds. (1957)
Israeli, Yael. Ancient Glass, Museum Haaretz Collection. (Tel-Aviv)
Kunina, Nina. Ancient Glass in the Hermitage Collection. (St Petersburg, 1997)
Lightfoot, C.S. Ancient Glass in National Museums Scotland. (Edinburgh, 2007)
Matheson, Susan. Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery. (Meriden, 1980)
Neuburg, Frederic. Ancient Glass. (Toronto, 1962)
Nicholson, Paul T. Egyptian Faience and Glass. (Buckinghamshire, 1993)
Oliver, Andrew. Ancient Glass: Ancient and Islamic Glass in the Carnegie Museum. (Carnegie Museum of Art, 1980)
Saldern, Axel V. Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer: Katalog (Karlsruhe, Germany, 1975)
Sotheby's Sale 20 Nov 1987. Ancient Glass, London, Sale 3242, London, 20 November 1987.
Sotheby's Sale 24 Nov 1997. Important Ancient Glass from the Collection formed by the British Rail Pension Fund, London, 24 November 1997.
Sotheby's Sale 7 July 1994. The Benzian Collection of Anceint and Islamic Glass, London, 7 July 1994.
Stern, Marianne. Early Glass of the Ancient World, 1600 B.C. - A.D. 50, Ernesto Wolf Collection. (Ostfildern-Ruit, 1994)
Stern, Marianne. Roman, Byzantine, and Early Medieval Glass, 10 BCE - 700 CE, Ernesto Wolf Collection. (Ostfildern-Ruit, 2001)
Von Saldern, Axel. Ancient Glass in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. (Meriden, 1968)
Whitehouse, David. Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Volume One. (Rochester, 1997)
Whitehouse, David. Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Volume Two. (Rochester, 2001)
Whitehouse, David. Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Volume Three. (Rochester, 1997)
Whitehouse, David. Sasanian and Post-Sasanian Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Volume One. (Manchester, 1997)

* Reference not held by Forum.