Barrel-Shaped Bottle with One Handle

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Barrel-Shaped Bottle with One Handle

Place of OriginAncient Rome

DateLate 3rd century CE

DimensionsH: 8 3/4 in. (22.2 cm); Diam: 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm)

MediumGlass; mold-blown.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1948.220

Not on View

DescriptionTransparent green glass. Medium thick glass. Numerous pinprick and small spherical bubbles; a few large bubbles in body. Transparent natural grayish green (5 G 5/2). Body into a three-part patterned mold with two vertical sections joined to base portion. Mold seams from top hoop to edge of base, not well aligned. Relief on base shallow and indistinct. Neck and rim free-blown. Circular wad on base ca. 2.0 cm. Excess glass at tip of handle folded up against rim. Hollow rim, folded outward, upward, inward, downward, and flattened. Cylindrical neck with constriction at its base. Horizontal shoulder. Barrel-shaped body. Concave base. Strap handle with three ribs from shoulder to rim. Handle positioned above mold seam. Body shaped like a wooden barrel standing upright with four hoops above and six hoops below. Mold-blown Latin inscription on underside of base: FROTINIANA (from Frontinus's workshop). The omission of the first N was a mistake of the mold-cutter. CLASSIFICATION Isings 1957, Form 89

Published ReferencesLabino, Dominick, Visual Art in Glass, Dubuque, IA, 1968, p. 29, repr. fig. 18.

Riefstahl, Rudolph, "Ancient and Near Eastern Glass," Museum News, New Series, vol. 4, no. 2, 1961, p. 38 (repr.).

Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass, A Guide to the Glass Collections, 1969, p. 27, repr.

Fundaburk, Emma Lila and Thomas G. Davenport, Art in Public Places in the United States, Bowling Green, 1975, p. 253, p. 183.

Grose, David, "Ancient Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 20, no. 3, 1978, p. 81, repr. fig. 17.

Grose, David, "The Origins and Early History of Glass," in The History of Glass, London, 1984, repr. p. 31.

Groffi, T. and J. Heus, Beschavingen 2, Antwerp, 1990, repr. p. 241.

Stern, E. Marianne, "Roman Glassblowing in a Cultural Context," American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 103, no. 3, July 1999, p. 462, 467, fig. 26.

Cummings, Keith, A Histoy of Glassforming, London, 2002, p. 80, repr.