Bottle on Three Pinched Feet

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Bottle on Three Pinched Feet

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date1st century CE

DimensionsH: 3 15/16 in. (10.0 cm); Rim Diam: 13/16 in. (2.1 cm); Body Diam: 2 3/8 in. (6.0 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1156

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DescriptionTriangular rim, folded downward, outward, upward, and inward. Tall cylindrical neck with constriction at its base. Near horizontal shoulder. Bulbous body with greatest diameter just above middle. Depression in center of base. Three short vertical feet with toes bent outward, pinched out from bottom of vessel. Medium thin glass. Small spherical bubbles and vertical linear bubbles in neck. Transparent to translucent natural pale green (near 5 G 7/2). Pontil mark ? (larger than 0.7 cm.)

Published ReferencesPuma, Richard Daniel de, Art in Roman Life: Villa to Grave, Roma, "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 2009, p. 133, no. 183.