Cylindrical Bottle with One Handle

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Cylindrical Bottle with One Handle

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date4th century CE

DimensionsH: 9 3/16 in. (25.0 cm); Rim Diam: 3 9/16 in. (9.0 cm); Body Diam: 4 13/16 in. (12.3 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.954

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DescriptionMedium thick glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering but it appears to have very few bubbles, if any, and blowing spirals. Transparent natural dusky yellow green (near 5 GY 5/2). Similarly colored handle and rim coil. Bulge at shoulder indicates that body was originally blown into a one-part mold but was reinflated and subsequently sagged. No pontil mark. Excess glass at tip of handle folded against mouth and rim. Flaring rim, rounded in flame. Tall cylindrical neck with slight taper and curved transition to shoulder. Sloping shoulder with bulge below indicating top edge of mold. Cylindrical body with outward sag in lower part. Concave base. Broad angular handle with four and a half low ribs from shoulder to where neck starts to flare. Rim coil. CLASSIFICATION: Isings 1957, Form 126 (variation).