Multisided Bottle with Two Handles

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Multisided Bottle with Two Handles

Place of OriginRoman Empire, perhaps Eastern Mediterranean

DateProbably first century

DimensionsH: 2 13/16 in. (7.1 cm);
H body: 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm);
Max Diam: 1 9/16 in. (3.9 cm);
Rim Diam: 1 1/16 in. (2.72 cm);
Base Diam: 11/16 in. (1.8 cm)

MediumMedium thick glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.893

Not on View

DescriptionThis bottle is made of medium-thick translucent streaked manganese-colored glass, with translucent grayish green handles (10 GY 5/2). The glass contains many medium-sized and two large vertically elongated bubbles in the neck, as well as several large oval bubbles in the body. The neck and body were blown into a two-part mold consisting of two vertical sections (MCT VIII H). A continuous mold seam runs around the body and base and extends onto either side of the neck. The rim is tooled and folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. The vessel has a cylindrical neck and a nine-sided body that rests on a square flat base. Two thin coil handles are applied to the shoulder and attached just below the rim, positioned to one side of the mold seam. On the front and back panels of the body, one large circle appears in raised outline.

Published ReferencesStern, E. Marianne, Roman Mold-blown Glass: the First through Sixth Centuries, "L'Erma" di Bretschneider in Association with the Toledo Museum of Art, Rome, Italy, 1995, no. 52, p. 150.

Arts, P.L.W., "A Collection of Ancient Glass 500 BC - 500 AD," ANTIEK Lochem, 2000, p. 100.