Bird-Shaped Vessel (Filler)

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Bird-Shaped Vessel (Filler)

Place of OriginRoman Empire

Date1st-2nd century CE

DimensionsH: 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm); Rim Diam: 1 1/8 in. (2.8 cm); Body Diam: 1 15/16 in. (5.0 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown and tooled

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1227

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DescriptionThis bird-shaped vessel, classified as a free-blown and tooled glass filler, is made of medium thin transparent natural pale green glass (5 G 7/2) containing small bubbles. Shaped to resemble a bird, it features a large round opening where the head would have been, an everted rim folded outward, downward, upward, and inward, a tall cylindrical neck with a curved transition to the shoulder, and a bulbous triangular body with a short tail pierced lengthwise through the tip and rounded in flame. The base is flattened and the piece was formed without a pontil mark.

Published ReferencesPuma, Richard Daniel de, Art In Roman Life: Villa to Grave, Rome, L'erma di Bretschneider, 2009, p. 130, no. 175.