Bulbous Bottle

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Bulbous Bottle

Artist Unidentified

Period Byzantine Empire (Byzantine, 395 CE-1453 CE)

Place of Originpossibly from Byzantine Syria

Date5th-6th century CE

Dimensions6 1/2 × 3 15/16 × 1 1/2 in. (16.5 × 10 × 3.8 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1908.52

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DescriptionThis bottle (Bottle I C 1 a) is made of thin, transparent natural green glass. Its exact color is obscured due to weathering. The vessel was shaped by free-blowing and tooling, with no pontil mark. The rim is rounded in a flame, with a tool mark along half of the interior. The neck is funnel-shaped with a slight bulge above a basal constriction. It has a gently sloping shoulder and a bulbous body with its widest point just above the middle. The base is concave. The neck features 15 revolutions of trailed thread, moving from right to left, starting halfway down and looping up and down in at least three segments. Four small, irregularly shaped chips appear in a row below the midpoint of the body.

Published ReferencesThe Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, 1908.