Tubular Bottle with 'Splashed' Decoration

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Tubular Bottle with 'Splashed' Decoration

Place of OriginRoman Empire

Date1st 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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DescriptionThis small tubular bottle (classified as Unguentarium Class IA2) is free-blown using medium thin glass and decorated with an irregular pattern of large opaque white and translucent manganese flecks. The transparent natural pale green glass (near 10 G 6/2) contains a few pinprick and vertical linear bubbles. The decoration was achieved by picking up strips of purple and white on the gather, marvering them smooth, and blowing them out with the vessel. The bottle has a wedge-shaped rim that is irregularly folded outward, upward, and inward. The tall cylindrical neck has a slight bulge above a constriction at the base, transitioning into a tubular body that makes up slightly more than half the total height. The base is flat with a slight central depression. The vessel has no pontil mark.