Hexagonal Bottle, Masks Type, Series A
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Hexagonal Bottle, Masks Type, Series A
Place of OriginPhoenicia
DateProbably second quarter of the first century
DimensionsH: 3 13/16 in. (9.63 cm); Rim Diam: 7/8 in. (2.2 cm); Diam: 1 9/16 in. (3.9 cm); Base Diam: 1 in. (2.5 cm)
MediumGlass; mold blown in a three-part mold, tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.432
Not on View
DescriptionOpaque pale blue (5 B 6/2). 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 at center of underside of base. Relief moderately crisp. A sharp, protruding mold seam between panels 2 and 3 indicates that the edges of the mold sections were not tightly closed at this point. Deep irregular crimp at base of neck.
Rim folded outward, upward, and inward. Tall cylindrical neck with constriction at its base. Convex circular shoulder and convex circular bottom joined by a hexagonal body. Base flat.
Decoration like 1923.431.
CLASSIFICATION:
Masks Type, Series A, Generation A1a
Opaque pale blue (5 B 6/2).
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 at center of underside of base. Relief moderately crisp. A sharp, protruding mold seam between panels 2 and 3 indicates that the edges of the mold sections were not tightly closed at this point. Deep irregular crimp at base of neck.
Rim folded outward, upward, and inward. Tall cylindrical neck with constriction at its base. Convex circular shoulder and convex circular bottom joined by a hexagonal body. Base flat.
Decoration like Cat. No. 41.
CLASSIFICATION
Masks Type, Series A, Generation A1a
Published ReferencesLightfoot, Christopher S., "A Roman Glass Flask in Gazlante's Museum," Anatolian Studies, Journal of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara XXXV, 1985, p. 124 (reprint in doc file 1923.429).
Lightfoot, Christopher S., "A Roman Glass Flask in Gaziantep Museum," Anatolian Studies, vol. 35, 1985, p. 125, no. 17.
Lightfoot, Christopher S., "A Group of Early Roman Mold-Blown Flasks from the West," Journal of Glass Studies 29, 1987, p. 21, no. 12, fig. 7, p. 15 (incorrectly describing the panels as showing two repeated sets of three masks and the shoulder as having six radiating ribs).
Stern, 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. 42, pp. 137-138, color pl. 8, p. 53, photograph, fig. 55.
Puma, Richard Daniel de, Art In Roman Life: Villa to Grave, Rome, L'erma di Bretschneider, 2009, p. 92, repr. (col.) p. 93, fig. 49.
Probably second quarter of the first century
Probably first quarter of first century
Probably second quarter of first century
Perhaps second quarter of first century
Probably mid-first century
Probably second half of first century
Probably second half of first century
Probably first quarter of first century
Probably first half of first century
Probably first quarter of first century
Probably first half of first century
Probably first half of first century
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