Bulbous Bottle with Interior Diaphragm

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Bulbous Bottle with Interior Diaphragm

Place of OriginRoman Empire

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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DescriptionThis bulbous bottle is free-blown from medium thin glass containing numerous small bubbles, elongated vertically in the neck, and a few larger horizontal bubbles in the rim (up to about 1.2 cm long). The glass is transparent to translucent yellowish brown (not on the rock color chart), with similarly colored applied coils and threads. The rim is outsplayed at a 45-degree angle, rounded and thickened in flame. A tall tubular neck tapers to a constriction at its base, where an interior cutout forms a diaphragm with an aperture measuring approximately 1.5 cm. The shoulder slopes gently into a bulbous body with its greatest diameter above the middle. The walls taper toward a small base formed by six pinched toes, with a very small seventh toe at the center. A ring pontil mark about 3.0 cm in diameter remains visible at the base. A coil of glass encircles the rim, applied from left to right. Six applied ribs run down the body, each with protruding pinched ends and small circular tool marks on either side.