Bulbous Bottle on Base Ring
Bulbous Bottle on Base Ring
Place of OriginAncient Rome
Dateabout 4th century CE
DimensionsH: 11 1/4 in. (28.6 cm); Rim Diam: 2 3/16 in. (5.5 cm); Body Diam: 5 1/2 in. (14 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown, tooled, and wheel engraved.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.768
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. Linear bubbles in neck. Blowing spirals.
Transparent natural grayish-green (near 5 G 5/2). Similarly colored base ring.
Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.8 cm. Engraved.
Flaring, rounded in flame. Tall tubular neck with curved transition to shoulder. Bulbous body with greatest diameter above middle, and walls curving down to small base. True base ring with outsplayed sides and slanting tool marks on exterior and interior.
On body, horizontal wheel-cut lines from base to shoulder: two bands consisting of three lines each, one band consisting of four lines, and a single line at base of neck.
CLASSIFICATION: Bottle, II A 2 e.
about 4th century CE
2nd century CE
5th-6th century
4th-5th century CE (?)
Fifth to seventh centuries
4th century CE
First half of first century
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