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

DescriptionMedium thick glass. A few small and medium bubbles. Black specks in thread. Free-blown and tooled. Body possibly mold-blown. No pontil mark. Added thread. Rim rounded in flame. Large wide cup-shaped chimney mouth. Tall tapering neck with curved transition to shoulder. Sloping shoulder with bulge. Inverted conical body with straight walls tapering down to base. Deeply concave base. On mouth, three revolutions of thick thread from right to left, starting at bottom. CLASSIFICATION Bottle II B 2 a Transparent pale green (5 G 7/2). Translucent similarly colored thread.

Published ReferencesThe Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, 1908.