Bird-Shaped Vessel
Bird-Shaped Vessel
Place of OriginRoman Empire
Date1st-2nd century CE
DimensionsH: 2 3/4 in. (7.0 cm); Rim Diam: 1 1/16 in. (2.7 cm); Body Diam: 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown; tooled
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1228
Not on View
DescriptionThis bird-shaped vessel, classified as free-blown and tooled glass, is made of thin translucent to transparent manganese-colored glass with a pale green streak and weathering that makes the fabric undetermined. The vessel takes the form of a bird with a large spouted opening where the head would be, an everted rim rolled inward, and a tall, slightly tapering neck that transitions to a bulbous body. The short horizontally flattened tail is pinched at the tip and possibly pierced vertically. The base is flattened with a depression in the center.
Published ReferencesHayes, John W., Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1975, p. 54, no. 118. (A close parallel dated "probably c. A.D. 50-150").
1st-2nd century CE
1st-2nd century CE
1st-2nd century CE
Late 2nd to mid-3rd century
Late 2nd to mid-3rd century
Late 1st to mid-2nd century
Probably early 4th century
Perhaps late first or 2nd century
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