Straight-Walled Bottle

Artist Unidentified

Period Roman Empire (Ancient Roman, 27 BCE-395 CE)

Place of Originpossibly from Laodicea, Roman Syria

Date4th century CE

Dimensions7 9/16 × 4 1/16 × 2 11/16 in. (19.2 × 10.3 × 6.9 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1908.51

Not on View

DescriptionThis bottle is made of transparent pale green glass (5 G 7/2) with a similarly colored applied thread. The glass is of medium thickness and contains a few small to medium bubbles and black specks in the thread. The body may have been mold-blown, with the rest of the vessel formed by free-blowing and tooling. There is no pontil mark. The rim is rounded in a flame, and the large chimney-like mouth is cup-shaped. The tall neck tapers upward and transitions into a sloping shoulder with a pronounced bulge. The body is inverted conical with straight walls that taper to a deeply concave base. A thick glass thread is wound in three revolutions from right to left on the mouth.

Published ReferencesThe Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, 1908.