Bulbous Bottle

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Bulbous Bottle

Place of OriginRoman Empire

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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DescriptionThis bulbous bottle was free-blown from translucent manganese-colored glass with an opaque white thread that appears light manganese along the edge. Pinprick bubbles and small black impurities can be seen within the glass. The rim is everted, possibly rounded and thickened in the flame. It has a tall, tapering neck that curves smoothly into the oblate body, which sits on a flattened base. A white spiral thread was embedded from the center of the base to the rim and combed upward to create a pattern of five festoons around the body and neck. The bottle has no pontil mark.