Squat Cylindrical Bottle with One Handle

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Squat Cylindrical Bottle with One Handle

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date4th century CE

DimensionsH: 7 11/16 in. (19.6 cm); Rim Diam: 3 in. (7.6 cm); Body Diam: 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.956

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. A few vertically elongated bubbles in neck. Transparent natural greenish gray tint. Exact color cannot be determined because of weathering. Body blown into one-part mold; no pontil mark. Neck and mouth free-blown. Added coil. Pre-formed handle; excess glass at tip of handle folded back and cut off. Rim rounded in flame. Funnel mouth. Cylindrical neck with taper and curved transition to shoulder. Sloping shoulder with bulge indicating top of mold. Cylindrical body with downward taper. Base flattened. Broad angular pre-formed handle from shoulder to top of neck with six rounded ribs. Rim coil. CLASSIFICATION: Isings 1957, From 126 (variation).

Published ReferencesHayes, John W., Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1975, p. 102, no. 363 (A close parallel dated "Early - mid 4th century A.D.").