Hexagonal Bottle, Vessels Type, Series A

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Hexagonal Bottle, Vessels Type, Series A

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Phoenicia

DateMid-first century

DimensionsH: 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm) Rim Diam: 13/16 in. (2.1 cm) Diam: 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm) Diam base: 7/8 in. (2.2 cm)

MediumGlass; mold blown and tooled

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.475

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DescriptionTranslucent grayish blue. Medium thin glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. Neck free blown. Body blown into a three-part mold of three vertical sections (MCT IV). Mold seams between panels 2 and 3, 4 and 5, and 6 and 1 meet off center on underside of base. Relief crisp, but difficult to distinguish because of weathering. Vertical tool mark at base of neck. Flaring rim, partially folded outward, upward, and inward. Cylindrical neck. Bulbous body with greatest diameter halfway between center and base. Low, offset base with irregular flat underside. On the shoulder, six arches, each containing an unidentified, large egg-shaped object. On the body, six rectangular panels divided by columns, each with an abacus, smooth shaft, and high double torus base. In the panels, six vessels, from left to right: 1, a spouted jug with high handle to the right; 2, a footed bowl with wide opening and two vertical handles from shoulder to rim, the opening containing three rows of rounded objects (fruit?); 3, a footed wide-mouthed vessel with two small vertical handles on the shoulder; 4, a footed bowl with tall cylindrical neck with vertical grooves, oblate body, and tall stem, the mouth filled with two rows of rounded objects (fruit?); 5, a footed jug with a spout and a high handle to the right; and 6, a second footed, wide-mouthed vessel as in panel 3. Around the bottom, fillets suspended from the center of one panel to the center of the adjacent panel, with alternating large and small fruits below each column, the larger ones with a knobbed surface, the smaller ones perhaps smooth. CLASSIFICATION: Vessels Type, Series A1, Generation A1b Translucent grayish blue. Neck free blown. Body blown into a three-part mold of three vertical sections (MCT IV A). Mold seams between panels 2 and 3, 4 and 5, and 6 and 1 meet off center on underside of base. Relief crisp, but difficult to distinguish because of weathering. Vertical tool mark at base of neck. Flaring rim, partially folded outward, upward, and inward. Cylindrical neck. Bulbous body with greatest diameter halfway between center and base. Low, offset base with irregular flat underside. On the shoulder, six arches, each containing an unidentified, large egg-shaped object. On the body, six rectangular panels divided by columns, each with an abacus, smooth shaft, and high double torus base. In the panels, six vessels, from left to right: 1, a spouted jug with high handle to the right; 2, a footed bowl with wide opening and two vertical handles from shoulder to rim, the opening containing three rows of rounded objects (fruit?); 3, a footed wide-mouthed vessel with two small vertical handles on the shoulder; 4, a footed bowl with tall cylindrical neck with vertical grooves, oblate body, and tall stem, the mouth filled with two rows of rounded objects (fruit?); 5, a footed jug with a spout and a high handle to the right; and 6, a second footed, wide-mouthed vessel as in panel 3. Around the bottom, fillets suspended from the center of one panel to the center of the adjacent panel, with alternating large and small fruits below each column, the larger ones with a knobbed surface, the smaller ones perhaps smooth. CLASSIFICATION Vessels Type, Series A1, Generation A1b

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. 22, pp. 120-121, Fig. 72, p. 117.

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