Unidentified Object
Date: 3rd-6th century
Dimensions:
L: 7 7/8 in. (20 cm); Max Diam: 1 9/16 in. (4 cm)
Medium: Glass; free blown, tooled, applied decoration
Place of Origin: Ancient Rome
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1923.1231
DescriptionMedium thin glass. Vertically elongated bubbles in body.
Natural light green; dark greenish-blue decoration; top looped to form circular opening; body widens in center, indented near bottom, then widens to form sphere at bottom; applied, spiral thread which begins near top, then contiues as four rows looped decoration; pontil mark on bottom.
Transparent natural pale green (between 5 G 7/2 and 5 G 5/2). Translucent to opaque dark blue thread.
Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.0 cm. Added thread. Tooled.
Rim rounded in flame. Top third of originally tubular neck pinched flat, curled over, and attached to middle of neck to form loop; remainder of neck tubular, swelling gradually into elongated bulbous main body of handle with greatest diameter below middle; near spherical lower body of handle separated from main body by jacking. Round base (object cannot stand).
Around body from lower body to bottom of neck, one continuous thread forming two revolutions of hanging festoons, two revolutions of inverted festoons, and five revolutions of thread trailed on from right to left. Around middle of main body, five low pinched projections.
Natural light green; dark greenish-blue decoration; top looped to form circular opening; body widens in center, indented near bottom, then widens to form sphere at bottom; applied, spiral thread which begins near top, then contiues as four rows looped decoration; pontil mark on bottom.
Transparent natural pale green (between 5 G 7/2 and 5 G 5/2). Translucent to opaque dark blue thread.
Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.0 cm. Added thread. Tooled.
Rim rounded in flame. Top third of originally tubular neck pinched flat, curled over, and attached to middle of neck to form loop; remainder of neck tubular, swelling gradually into elongated bulbous main body of handle with greatest diameter below middle; near spherical lower body of handle separated from main body by jacking. Round base (object cannot stand).
Around body from lower body to bottom of neck, one continuous thread forming two revolutions of hanging festoons, two revolutions of inverted festoons, and five revolutions of thread trailed on from right to left. Around middle of main body, five low pinched projections.
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