Pear-Shaped Flask

Artist Unidentified

Period Roman Empire (Ancient Roman, 27 BCE-395 CE)

Place of OriginRoman Empire

Datelate 1st-4th century CE

Dimensions4 7/8 × 1 7/8 × 13/16 in. (12.4 × 4.7 × 2 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1908.44

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DescriptionFree-blown and tooled. Transparent natural pale green. Thin glass. A few small spherical bubbles in the body and vertical linear bubbles in the neck. Outsplayed tubular rim folded outward, upward, and inward. Tall, cylindrical neck with a toolmark and slight constriction at its base. Piriform body about one half of the total height, with slightly concave walls. Flat bottom with a depression at its center.