Bulbous Bottle
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
Not on View
DescriptionThin glass. Vertical linear bubbles in neck. Black specks.
Transparent natural green. Exact color cannot be determined because of weathering.
Free-blown and tooled, no pontil mark. Added thread and added chips / blobs.
Rim rounded in flame with tool mark along half of interior. Funnel neck with slight bulge above constriction at its base. Gently sloping shoulder. Bulbous body with greatest diameter just above middle. Concave base.
On neck, 15 revolutions of thread from right to left, starting about halfway down, trailed up and then down in at least three segments. On body below middle, a row of four small irregularly shaped chips.
CLASSIFICATION Bottle I C 1 a
Published ReferencesThe Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, 1908.4th-5th century CE
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Second to third quarter of fourth century CE
1st century CE
4th-5th century CE
Mid-fourth to fifth century
Sixth to early seventh century
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