Squat Bulbous Bottle on Base Ring
Squat Bulbous Bottle on Base Ring
Place of OriginAncient Rome
Date3rd century CE
DimensionsH: 4 1/4 in. (10.7 cm); Rim Diam: 3/4 in. (1.9 cm); Diam (body): 4 7/16 in. (11.3 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown, tooled, applied decoration
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1345
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thick glass in neck; thin glass in body. Small bubbles.
Colorless; flattened hemispherical shape; cylindrical neck, slightly wider at bottom; shoulder decorated with applied spiral thread; body decorated with seven circular indentations; circular base ring.
Transparent decolored glass with a grayish yellow green tinge (5 GY 7/2). Similarly colored thread.
Free-blown. No pontil mark. Tooled indentations. Applied thread.
Rim ground. Tall tubular neck with bulge above constriction at its base. Horizontal shoulder sloping gently upward to neck. Squat bulbous body with greatest diameter near shoulder. Flat base with base coil.
In body, seven deep near-circular indentations. On shoulder, five revolutions of thin spiral thread.
Published ReferencesGrose, David, "Ancient Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 20, no. 3, 1978, p. 82, 85, repr. fig. 22.Probably second half of fourth to early fifth century
3rd-4th century CE
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Probably fourth century
Probably fifth century
3rd-4th century
Probably mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Probably fourth century
Probably fifth to early sixth century
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