Bulbous Bottle on Base Ring
Bulbous Bottle on Base Ring
Place of OriginAncient Rome
Date3rd-5th century CE
DimensionsH: 7 5/8 in. (19.4 cm); Rim Diam: 2 in. (5.1 cm); Body Diam: 5 in. (12.7 cm); Base Diam: 3 1/8 in. (8.0 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown and tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.497
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. Blowing spirals. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering.
Transparent natural grayish green (5 G 5/2). Similarly colored thread.
Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.4 cm. Added thread.
Rim rounded and thickened in flame. Concave neck with curved transition to shoulder. Strongly sloped shoulder. Bulbous body with greatest diameter just below middle. Flat base with depression in center and hollow tubular pushed-in base ring.
At base of neck, two revolutions of thread.
CLASSIFICATION: Bottle II D 1 b.
3rd-5th century CE
3rd-4th century CE
3rd-5th century CE
3rd-4th century CE
Late 4th-5th century CE
3rd-5th century CE
about 3rd-4th century CE
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
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