Spherical Bottle with Inner Diaphragm (Sprinkler)

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Spherical Bottle with Inner Diaphragm (Sprinkler)

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date3rd-4th century CE

DimensionsH: 4 9/16 in. (11.6 cm); Rim Diam: 2 7/16 in. (6.2 cm); Body Diam: 3 in. (7.6 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1317

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. Transparent manganese-colored very dark red (near 5 R 2/6). Opaque white(?) thread. Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.8 cm. Added thread. Rim outsplayed at a 45-degree angle and folded outward, upward, and inward. Slightly tapering tubular neck with constriction at its base where an interior cutout forms a diaphragm with an aperture of ca. 1.1 cm. Spherical body. Round base; vessel cannot stand. On body, ca. sixteen revolutions of thread.