Bulbous Bottle with Internal Threads

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Bulbous Bottle with Internal Threads

Place of OriginRoman Empire

Date5th Century

DimensionsH: 5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm); Rim Diam: 7/8 in. (2.3 cm); Body Diam: 2 3/8 in. (6.0 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.2074

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DescriptionThin glass. Some vertically elongated bubbles in neck. Transparent light olive-brown (5 Y 5/6). Similarly colored thread. Free-blown. No pontil mark. Added thread. Tooled. 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, at least twenty revolutions of thin thread. Point and direction of application cannot be determined because of weathering. Five separate neck coils regularly spaced down neck applied over thread from right to left. On body, ten horizontally pinched warts at junction of shoulder and body. Six internal threads from just above base to just below neck. CLASSIFICATION: Bulbous Bottle I A 1 a.