Bulbous Bottle on Base Ring with Two Openwork Handles
Bulbous Bottle on Base Ring with Two Openwork Handles
Artist
Unidentified
Period
Roman Empire
(Ancient Roman, 27 BCE-395 CE)
Period
Byzantine Empire
(Byzantine, 395 CE-1453 CE)
Place of OriginProbably Syria; possibly from Hauran [Roman or Byzantine Empire]
Date4th-5th century CE
Dimensions4 3/16 × 2 3/16 × 1 7/16 × 1 3/8 in. (10.7 × 5.6 × 3.6 × 3.5 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1908.69
Not on View
DescriptionThis bulbous bottle (Bottle I C 1 b) is free-blown and tooled from medium thin transparent natural grayish green glass (between 10 GY 5/2 and 5 G 7/2), with translucent dusky blue green handles and thread (5 BG 3/2). It features a tall funnel neck with a tool mark at its base, a gently sloping shoulder, and a rounded rim finished in flame. The deeply concave base is surrounded by a pushed-in hollow tubular base ring.
Two side trails, serving as openwork handles, are each formed into three loops. These are applied to the shoulder, touched down twice on the neck, and attached at the rim in a sequence of folded loops. Ten revolutions of thread spiral from just below the rim downward along the neck. The pontil mark at the base measures approximately 1.3 cm. Excess glass at the tips of the handles has been folded back against their tops
Late 4th-5th century CE
6th to early 7th century
6th to early 7th century
Late 4th to late 5th century CE
mid-4th to mid-5th century
Probably 5th to 6th century
6th to early 7th century
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