Double Convex Bottle

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Double Convex Bottle

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date6th century CE

DimensionsH: 4 11/16 in. (11.9 cm); Rim Diam: 1 1/8 in. (2.9 cm); Body Diam: 2 7/16 in. (6.1 cm)

MediumGlass; expanded mold-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1321

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DescriptionTransparent to translucent dark blue. Body blown into a one-part patterned mold and expanded. Neck and mouth free-blown. No pontil mark. Tooled. Thin glass. A few pinprick bubbles. Rim rounded in flame. Chimney mouth. Short tubular neck with curved transition to shoulder. Sloping shoulder. Double convex body with greatest diameter below middle of lower part. Concave base. On body from ca. 2.0 cm below neck to 1.5 cm above base, ca. twenty-seven indistinct vertical mold-blown corrugations. On one side of body, four irregular pinched warts just above base. CLASSIFICATION: Bottle II A 2 a.