Hexagonal Bottle, Vessels Type, Series A

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Hexagonal Bottle, Vessels Type, Series A

Place of OriginPhoenicia

DateMid-first century or earlier

DimensionsH: 3 1/16 in. (7.8 cm); Rim Diam: 13/16 in. (2 cm); Diam: 1 9/16 in. (4 cm); Base Diam: 7/8 in. (2.2 cm)

MediumGlass; mold blown and tooled

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.473

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DescriptionMedium thin glass; numerous small spherical bubbles in body and small to large linear and pinprick bubbles in neck. Translucent dark yellow green (10 GY 4/4) and moderate blue green (5 BG 4/6). Opaque reddish brown streaks in neck and rim. Batch not well melted; possibly same batch as 1923.531. Neck free blown. Body blown into a four-part mold of three vertical sections joined to a disk-shaped base section (MCT II). Mold seams between panels 2 and 3, 4 and 5, and 6 and 1. Relief indistinct. Vertical crimps at base of neck from tool used to hold vessel while finishing rim. Flaring rim, folded outward, upward, and inward. Cylindrical neck with slight downward taper. Sloping shoulder. Ovoid body. Low, offset base with flat underside with two raised concentric circles. Decoration like 1923.531. CLASSIFICATION: Vessels Type, Series A3, Generation A3a-y. Translucent dark yellow green (10 GY 4/4) and moderate blue green (5 BG 4/6). Opaque reddish brown streaks in neck and rim. Batch not well melted; possibly same batch as Cat. No. 26. Neck free blown. Body blown into a four-part mold of three vertical sections joined to a disk-shaped base section (MCT II). Mold seams between panels 2 and 3, 4 and 5, and 6 and 1. Relief indistinct. Vertical crimps at base of neck from tool used to hold vessel while finishing rim. Flaring rim, folded outward, upward, and inward. Cylindrical neck with slight downward taper. Sloping shoulder. Ovoid body. Low, offset base with flat underside with two raised concentric circles. Decoration like Cat. No. 26. CLASSIFICATION Vessels Type, Series A3, Generation A3aÐy

Published ReferencesStern, E. Marianne, Roman Mold-Blown Glass: The First Through Sixth Centuries, Rome, Italy, "L'Erma" di Bretschneider in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, 1995, cat. no. 31, p. 126.

Arts, P.L.W., "A Collection of Ancient Glass 500 BC - 500 AD," ANTIEK Lochem, 2000, p. 103.

Comparative ReferencesSee also Axel von Saldern, et al. Gläder Der Antike (Sammlung Oppenländer). Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1974. fig. 401, p. 142.