Bulbous Bottle

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Bulbous Bottle

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date5th-6th century CE

DimensionsH: 9 3/16 in. (23.4 cm); Diam: 3 1/4 in. (8.2 cm)

MediumGlass; blown and tooled, with applied decoration

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineReceived in exchange from the Kelsey Museum of Ancient & Medieval Archaeology, University of Michigan

Object number

1977.19

Not on View

DescriptionMedium thin glass. Numerous small and medium-sized bubbles vertically elongated in neck, ovoid in body. Some stone in body. Blowing spirals. Transparent yellowish green (not in rock color chart). Translucent dusky yellowish green (not in rock color chart). Translucent dusky yellow green corrugated coil (near 5 GY 5/2) with opaque similarly colored streaks. Free-blown. No pontil mark. Added coil; tooled. Flaring rim, folded outward, upward, inward, and flattened. Tubular neck with constriction at its base. Steeply sloped shoulder. Bulbous body with greatest diameter below middle. Concave base. Shoulder coil with ten projecting crimps trailed on from left to right. CLASSIFICATION Bulbous Bottle I A 4 a

Published ReferencesGrose, David, "Ancient Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 20, no. 3, 1978, p. 69, repr. fig. 31.

Grose, David, "The Origins and Early History of Glass," in The History of Glass, London, 1984, repr. (col.) p. 12-13.