Squat Cylindrical Bottle with One Handle

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Squat Cylindrical Bottle with One Handle

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date4th century CE

DimensionsH: 6 1/8 in. (15.5 cm); Rim Diam: 2 9/16 in. (6.5 cm); Body Diam: 3 1/16 in. (7.8 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown and tooled

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.955

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. A few small bubbles, spherical in body and vertically elongated in neck. Transparent yellowish light olive green (10 Y 5/4). Similarly colored handle. Body blown into one-part mold. Pontil mark ca. 1.47 cm. Neck and mouth free-blown. Pre-formed handle; excess glass at tip of handle folded up against rim and back against top of handle. Added coil. Funnel mouth; rim rounded in flame. Cylindrical neck with slight taper and curved transition to shoulder. Sloping shoulder with bulge indicating top of mold. Cylindrical body with downward taper. Low kick in base. Broad angular pre-formed handle with ten low ribs from shoulder to rim coil. Rim coil. CLASSIFICATION Isings 1957, Form 126 (variation)

Label TextAlthough practical containers, the bottles displayed here have a subtle beauty which is enhanced by the vibrant blue and green glass used to make them. These bottles were formed using a technique called mold-blowing where a molten glass bubble was blown into a mold, forcing the bubble to conform to the mold’s shape. This technique allowed glass to be utilized as a medium for mass production by guaranteeing a standardization of shape, while at the same time giving the glassblower the option to add free-formed details such as handles.Published ReferencesHayes, John W., Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1975, p. 102, no. 363 (as a parallel for his no. 364).