Bulbous Bottle with Internal Threads
Bulbous Bottle with Internal Threads
Place of OriginAncient Rome
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
Not on View
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.
5th century CE
Probably fourth century
Late fourth to early fifth century
3rd century BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
3rd-4th century CE
Probably late fifth to early sixth century
New Kingdom, Eighteenth Dynasty, about 1412-1350 BCE
Late 4th-early 3rd BCE
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