Bulbous Bottle with Interior Diaphragm

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Bulbous Bottle with Interior Diaphragm

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date2nd-3rd century CE

DimensionsH: 5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm); Rim Diam: 3 3/16 in. (8 cm); Body Diam: 4 in. (10.3 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1069

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. Numerous small bubbles, elongated vertically in neck; a few large horizontal bubbles in rim (length ca. 1.2 cm). Transparent to translucent yellowish brown (not on rock color chart). Similarly colored coil and applied threads. Free-blown. Ring pontil ca. 3.0 cm. Added thread. Pinched. Rim outsplayed at a 45-degree angle, rounded and thickened in flame. Tall tubular neck with constriction at its base where an interior cutout forms a diaphragm with an aperture of ca. 1.5 cm. Gently sloping shoulder. Bulbous body with greatest diameter above middle. Walls taper toward small base consisting of six pinched toes. In center of toes, a very small seventh toe. Rim coil from left to right. On body, six applied ribs with protruding pinched ends; small circular tool marks in center on either side of each end.