Bulbous Bottle with Two Handles

Artist Unidentified

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

Place of Originpossibly from Laodicea, Roman Syria

Date2nd-3rd century CE

Dimensions3 5/8 × 1 1/2 × 2 1/4 in. (9.2 × 3.8 × 5.7 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number

1908.73

Not on View

DescriptionTransparent natural grayish yellow-green (between 5 GY 7/2 and 5 GY 5/2). Translucent light olive handles. Thin glass. Blowing spirals. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. Free-blown and tooled. Pontil mark ca. 1.2 cm. Added coil. Excess glass at tips of handles drawn out thin against neck. Rim folded outward, upward, inward, and downward; tool mark on interior. Tubular neck. Sloping shoulder. Bulbous body with greatest diameter below center. Concave base. Two curved coil handles applied to shoulder and attached to lower part of neck where they are trailed partially around neck in opposite directions to form a neck coil. CLASSIFICATION: Bottle II A 3 a, with handles I A 2 d.

Published ReferencesThe Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, 1908.