Double Convex Bottle

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Double Convex Bottle

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date4th-5th century CE

DimensionsH: 6 1/8 in. (15.5 cm); Rim Diam: 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm); Body Diam: 3 9/16 in. (9.0 cm)

MediumGlass; blown in a mold, removed, free-blown, tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1322

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DescriptionThin glass. A few small bubbles and a few medium bubbles vertically elongated in upper part of body (1.3 cm). Transparent natural light olive (near 10 Y 5/4). Translucent dusky blue-green thread (near 5 BG 3/2). Body blown into a one-part ribbed and grooved mold. Neck free-blown. No pontil mark. Added thread. Rim rounded in flame. Funnel neck with tool mark at its base. Double convex body with greatest diameter just above middle of lower part. Concave base. On upper half of neck, six revolutions of thread from left to right, starting about halfway down, trailed up and down in at least two segments. On body, thirty-one mold-blown vertical corrugations. CLASSIFICATION: Bottle I C 1 a.