Bulbous Bottle

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Bulbous Bottle

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date3rd-4th century CE

DimensionsH: 5 1/8 in. (13.0 cm); Rim Diam: 2 5/16 in. (5.9 cm); Body Diam: 3 9/16 in. (9.1 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.2410

Not on View

DescriptionMedium thin glass. Pinprick bubbles. Blowing spirals. Transparent natural pale green (10 G 6/2). Free-blown. No pontil mark. Rim outsplayed at a 45 degree angle, rounded and thickened in flame with tool mark along interior. Tall tubular neck with slight bulge above constriction at its base. Horizontal shoulder. Bulbous body with greatest diameter below middle. Base flattened. Glass; free blown and tooled.

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