Piriform Bottle with Two Handles

Artist Unidentified

Period Roman Empire (Ancient Roman, 27 BCE-395 CE)

Place of Originpossibly from Hauran, Roman Syria

Date3rd-4th century CE

Dimensions6 5/8 × 2 5/16 × 1 1/4 × 1 1/2 in. (16.9 × 5.9 × 3.2 × 3.8 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Object number

1908.63

Not on View

DescriptionThin glass. Numerous medium-sized vertically elongated bubbles. Transparent natural pale blue green (5 BG 7/2). Translucent similarly colored handles and trails. Free-blown and tooled. Pontil mark ca. 1.35 cm. Excess glass at tips of handles drawn out thin and trailed off across top of handle on one side and folded downward against handle on the other. Hollow rim folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. Tubular neck with slight bulge above constriction at its base. Piriform body. Pushed-in base. Two angular coil handles with long tails, applied to lower part of body, trailed up body to base of neck, with 10 irregular crimps on one side and 12 on the other, then bent out into angular handles and attached to lower part of neck. CLASSIFICATION: Bulbous Bottle I A 3 b.

Published ReferencesThe Toledo Museum of Art: Museum News 1908.