Piriform Bottle
Piriform Bottle
Place of OriginAncient Rome
Date1st century CE
DimensionsH: 4 13/16 in. (12.2 cm); Rim Diam: 1 3/16 in. (3.0cm); Body Diam: 2 13/16 in. (7.2 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown, threads picked up and combed downward, reinflated and tooled.
Fabric: Numerous small spherical bubbles, many of which have burst at the surface.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1483
Not on View
DescriptionTranslucent manganese colored glass. Opaque white embedded thread.
Free-blown. No pontil mark. Added thread, tooled and melted into the surface.
Everted rim, rolled inward with tool mark on interior. Tall cylindrical neck with curved transition to shoulder. Piriform body. Flattened base.
Embedded white spiral thread from center of base to rim, combed downward to form an exceptionally regular pattern of quadruple inverted festoons.
CLASSIFICATION: Isings 1957, Form 26 (variation).
1st century CE (or modern?)
1st century CE
1st century CE
3rd-4th century CE
1st century CE
1st century CE
1st century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
1st century CE
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