Piriform Bottle
Piriform Bottle
Place of OriginRoman Empire
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
DescriptionThis piriform bottle was free-blown from translucent manganese-colored glass with an added opaque white thread. The fabric shows numerous small spherical bubbles, many of which have burst at the surface. The bottle has an everted rim rolled inward with a tool mark on the interior, a tall cylindrical neck with a smooth transition to the shoulder, and a piriform body ending in a flattened base. An embedded white spiral thread runs from the center of the base to the rim, combed downward to create an exceptionally regular pattern of quadruple inverted festoons. This vessel is classified as Isings 1957, Form 26 (variation).
1st century CE
1st century CE (or modern?)
3rd-4th century CE
1st century CE
1st century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
1st century CE
Early to mid-first century CE
1st century CE
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