Bulbous Bottle with Two Handles

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Bulbous Bottle with Two Handles

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Syria or Palestine

DateProbably second half of the first century

DimensionsH: 3 1/16 in. (7.8 cm); Rim Diam: 1 in. (2.5 cm); Max Diam: 2 1/32 in. (5.2 cm); Base Diam: 1 1/8 in. (2.8 cm)

MediumGlass; mold blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.914

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DescriptionTranslucent to transparent streaked manganese colored glass. One similarly colored and one translucent grayish blue handle. Thin glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. Neck free blown. Body blown into a three-part mold of two vertical sections joined to a cup-shaped base section (MCT V). Edges of mold carefully aligned. Tips of handles drawn out thin and folded back on top of handle. Everted rim, barely rounded in flame and partly folded outward, upward, and inward. Cylindrical neck. Ovoid body. Flat base with slight depression in center. Two coil handles applied to shoulder and attached halfway up neck. Handles positioned adjacent to mold seams. Friezes of twenty-six downturned tongues in raised outline on upper body and twenty-seven upturned flutes on lower body joined by a central band of contiguous lozenges in raised outline (or X's or net pattern) bordered above by a raised ridge.

Published ReferencesStern, E. Marianne, Roman Mold-blown Glass: The First through Sixth Centuries, Rome, "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 1995, p. 151, no. 54.