Bottle with internal tooling

Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean

Date5th century CE

DimensionsH: 18.5 cm (7 3/16 in.); Diam (rim): 1 in. (2.6 cm); Diam (body): 3 1/8 in. (7.8 cm)

MediumPale blue-green glass; blown, trail-decorated, and tooled

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1239

Not on View

DescriptionThin glass. Vertically elongated bubbles in neck. Fabric of body cannot be determined because of weathering. Transparent natural pale green (10 G 6/7). Similarly colored thread. Free-blown. No pontil mark. Added thread. Internal threads created by poking in lower wall of partially inflated vessel until the glass from the lower body touched the upper wall, then, as inflation enlarged vessel body, the poked-in glass lengthened to become a narrow hollow thread. Rim rounded in flame. Tubular neck tapering downward with constriction at its base. Gently sloping shoulder. Bulbous body with greatest diameter below shoulder. Concave base. Around neck, 18 revolutions of thread trailed on downward from right to left. On body, 11 horizontally pinched warts at junction of shoulder and body. Four internal threads from just above base to just below neck. CLASSIFICATION Bulbous Bottle I A 1 a

Published ReferencesLees-Causey, Catherine, "Some Roman Glass in the J. Paul Getty Museum," The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, vol. II, 1983, p. 154.