Bottle with internal tooling
Date: 5th century CE
Dimensions:
H: 18.5 cm (7 3/16 in.); Diam (rim): 1 in. (2.6 cm); Diam (body): 3 1/8 in. (7.8 cm)
Medium: Pale blue-green glass; blown, trail-decorated, and tooled
Place of Origin: Eastern Mediterranean
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1923.1239
DescriptionThin glass. Vertically elongated bubbles in neck. Fabric of body cannot be determined because of weathering.
Transparent natural pale green (10 G 6/7). Similarly colored thread.
Free-blown. No pontil mark. Added thread. Internal threads created by poking in lower wall of partially inflated vessel until the glass from the lower body touched the upper wall, then, as inflation enlarged vessel body, the poked-in glass lengthened to become a narrow hollow thread.
Rim rounded in flame. Tubular neck tapering downward with constriction at its base. Gently sloping shoulder. Bulbous body with greatest diameter below shoulder. Concave base.
Around neck, 18 revolutions of thread trailed on downward from right to left. On body, 11 horizontally pinched warts at junction of shoulder and body. Four internal threads from just above base to just below neck.
CLASSIFICATION Bulbous Bottle I A 1 a
Transparent natural pale green (10 G 6/7). Similarly colored thread.
Free-blown. No pontil mark. Added thread. Internal threads created by poking in lower wall of partially inflated vessel until the glass from the lower body touched the upper wall, then, as inflation enlarged vessel body, the poked-in glass lengthened to become a narrow hollow thread.
Rim rounded in flame. Tubular neck tapering downward with constriction at its base. Gently sloping shoulder. Bulbous body with greatest diameter below shoulder. Concave base.
Around neck, 18 revolutions of thread trailed on downward from right to left. On body, 11 horizontally pinched warts at junction of shoulder and body. Four internal threads from just above base to just below neck.
CLASSIFICATION Bulbous Bottle I A 1 a
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