Triangular Bottle

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Triangular Bottle

Place of OriginRoman Empire

Date1st century CE

DimensionsH: 4 9/32 in. (10.9 cm); Rim Diam: 1 3/16 in. (3.0 cm); Max Diam: 2 3/8 in. (6.1 cm)

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

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.630

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DescriptionThis vessel is classified as Isings 1957, Form 28 A (late development). It is made of medium thin glass that is translucent dusky yellow green (near 5 GY 5/2) with a stronger yellow tone. The glass contains numerous small spherical and pinprick bubbles. It was free-blown, with opaque white thread picked up, reinflated, and tooled to melt into the surface. A pontil mark about 1.2 cm wide remains on the base. The rim is folded outward, upward, inward, and flattened. The tall cylindrical neck shows a clear tooling mark at its base. The conical body is approximately half the vessel’s total height and ends in a broad flattened base. An embedded white spiral thread runs from the center of the base to the rim.