Bulbous Bottle

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Bulbous Bottle

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date1st century CE (or modern?)

DimensionsH: 4 in. (10.2 cm); Rim Diam: 7/8 in. (2.2 cm); Body Diam: 2 9/16 in. (6.5 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown, threads picked up and combed, reinflated and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1479

Not on View

DescriptionNumerous small spherical and a few large spherical bubbles in body and base; some bubbles burst at surface. Translucent medium brown (near 5 YR 4/4). Opaque white embedded thread appearing opaque light yellowish brown on lower part of body. Free-blown. No pontil mark. Added thread, tooled and melted into surface. Everted rim, rolled inward with tool mark on interior. Tall tapering neck with curved transition to shoulder. Near spherical body. Flattened base. Embedded white thread from center of base to rim, combed upward to form a pattern of quadruple festoons around body and neck.

Published ReferencesHayes, John W., Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1975, p. 53, no. 111. (A close parallel dated "Late 1st-early 2nd century A.D.")