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
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- Glass
1st century CE
1st century CE
1st century CE
3rd-4th century CE
1st century CE
1st century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
1st century CE
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