Spherical Bottle with Dolphin Handles (Ary ballos)

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Spherical Bottle with Dolphin Handles (Ary ballos)

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date1st-2nd century CE

DimensionsH: 1 9/16 in. (4.0 cm); Rim Diam: 1 in. (2.5 cm); Body Diam: 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1034

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. A few small horizontally elongated bubbles. Transparent decolored glass with grayish yellow green tinge (5 GY 7/2). Similarly colored thread. Free-blown. No pontil mark. Added thread. Hollow rim, folded outward, upward, inward, and flattened to form a broad brim. Cylindrical neck with curved transition to shoulder. Horizontal shoulder. Squat bulbous body with greatest diameter at center. Base flattened with depression in center. Two so-called dolphin handles from shoulder along neck to rim and folded backward to shoulder of vessel. Eleven revolutions of spiral thread from center of base to base of neck. CLASSIFICATION: Isings 1957, Form 61.