Piriform Bottle with Solid Base

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Piriform Bottle with Solid Base

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date2nd century CE

DimensionsH: 7 1/2 in. (19.2 cm); Rim Diam: 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm); Body Diam: 3 1/16 in. (7.7 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled, wheel-cut.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1122

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DescriptionTransparent decolored glass with grayish-green tinge (10 GY 5/2). No trace of pontil mark. Wheel-cut. Collar rim folded outward/downward, outward, and upward. Tall, slightly tapering neck with constriction at its base. Tall piriform body. Base flattened with slight depression in center. Three shallow wheel-cut grooves on neck and seven on body. Medium thin glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering.

Published ReferencesHayes, John W., Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1975, p. 58, (ill. pl. 11) no. 145 (A close parallel dated "Mid (?) 2nd century A. D.")