Bulbous Bottle

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Bulbous Bottle

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date1st century CE

DimensionsH: 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm); Rim Diam: 5/8 in. (1.6 cm); Body Diam: 2 7/16 in. (6.2 cm)

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

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1482

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DescriptionPinprick bubbles and small black impurities. Translucent manganese colored glass. Opaque white embedded thread appearing opaque light manganese along edge. Free-blown. No pontil mark. Added thread, tooled and melted into surface. Everted rim, possibly rounded and thickened in flame. Tall tapering neck with curved transition to shoulder. Oblate body. Flattened base. Embedded white spiral thread from center of base to rim, combed upward to form a pattern of quintuple festoons around body and neck.