Tubular Bottle with 'Splashed' Decoration

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Tubular Bottle with 'Splashed' Decoration

Place of OriginAncient Rome

DateFirst century

DimensionsH: 4 1/2 in. (11.5 cm); Rim Diam: 13/16 in. (2.1 cm)Body Diam: 1 5/16 in. (3.3 cm)

MediumFree blown, strips of purple and white picked up, marvered (?), reinflated

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1497

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. A few pinprick and vertical linear bubbles. Transparent natural pale green (near 10 G 6/2). Flecks of opaque white and translucent manganese color. Free-blown. No pontil mark. Colored chips picked up on gather, marvered smooth, and blown out with vessel. Wedge-shaped rim, irregularly folded outward/upward and upward/inward. Tall cylindrical neck with slight bulge above constriction at base of neck. Tubular body slightly more than half total height. Base flat with slight depression in center. Irregular pattern of large opaque white and manganese flecks on body. CLASSIFICATION Tubular unguentarium Class IA2