Cylindrical Bottle on Base Ring

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Cylindrical Bottle on Base Ring

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date1st Century

DimensionsH: 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm); Rim Diam: 7/8 in. (2.2 cm); Diam (body): 1 7/8 in. (4.7 cm); Base Diam: 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm)

MediumBlown and tooled, foot applied

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1471

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. Pinprick bubbles in body and small vertically elongated bubbles in neck. Translucent amber. Opaque white rods. Free-blown from pre-formed glass. Rim folded outward, upward, and inward. Tall tapering neck with tool mark at its base. Sloping shoulder and cylindrical body with slight downward taper. Flat base with open, pushed-in base ring. Numerous thin opaque white canes set randomly into a matrix of amber- colored glass and melted to form a dense jumbled pattern resembling fireworks.