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Beaker with Cracked-off Rim

Date 1st to 2nd century A.D.
Dimensions H. 7.1 cm, D. (max.) 9 cm
Accession Number 50.1.18 (CMOG)
Credit The Corning Museum of Glass (Cat. 388), formerly in the Cesnola Collection and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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The commercial success of nearly any glassblowing enterprise depends largely on the making and selling of tumblers: modest-sized simple drinking vessels. Early Roman-period glassworkers produced tumblers with either furnace-finished rims (Video 44) or, as in this example, cracked-off rims. This latter process is extremely quick and easy to complete.

Video 45 The commercial success of nearly any glassblowing enterprise depends largely on the making and selling of tumblers: modest-sized simple drinking vessels. Early Roman-period glassworkers produced tumblers with either furnace-finished rims (Video 44) or, as in this example, cracked-off rims. This latter process is extremely quick and easy to complete.
Video 45 The commercial success of nearly any glassblowing enterprise depends largely on the making and selling of tumblers: modest-sized simple drinking vessels. Early Roman-period glassworkers produced tumblers with either furnace-finished rims (Video 44) or, as in this example, cracked-off rims. This latter process is extremely quick and easy to complete.
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