Bulbous Bottle with One Handle

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Bulbous Bottle with One Handle

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Syria or Palestine

Date1st century CE

DimensionsH (including handle): 3 1/16 in. (7.8 cm); Diam: 1 1/8 in. (2.7 cm)

MediumGlass; mold blown in a two-part mold, tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.679

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DescriptionTranslucent streaked manganese colored glass. Translucent streaked grayish blue handle. Medium thin glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. Neck free blown. Body blown into a two-part mold of two vertical sections (MCT VIII O). One continuous mold seam extends across underside of base. Edges of mold not carefully aligned; therefore, base is in two planes. Tip of handle drawn out thin and folded back. Rim folded outward, upward, and inward, except where handle is attached. Cylindrical neck. Ovoid body. Base intended to be flat. Bifurcated handle applied to shoulder and attached to rim with projecting thumbrest above. Handle positioned to one side of mold seam. Friezes of twenty-four downturned contiguous flutes in raised outline on upper body and twenty-nine upturned flutes on lower body joined by a central band of tendril scrolls bordered above and below by a low narrow ridge and wide shallow groove. Translucent streaked manganese colored glass. Translucent streaked grayish blue handle. Neck free blown. Body blown into a two-part mold of two vertical sections (MCT VIII O). One continuous mold seam extends across underside of base. Edges of mold not carefully aligned; therefore, base is in two planes. Tip of handle drawn out thin and folded back. Rim folded outward, upward, and inward, except where handle is attached. Cylindrical neck. Ovoid body. Base intended to be flat. Bifurcated handle applied to shoulder and attached to rim with projecting thumbrest above. Handle positioned to one side of mold seam. Friezes of twenty-four downturned contiguous flutes in raised outline on upper body and twenty-nine upturned flutes on lower body joined by a central band of tendril scrolls bordered above and below by a low narrow ridge and wide shallow groove.

Published ReferencesStern, E. Marianne, Roman Mold-blown Glass: The First through Sixth Centuries, Rome, "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 1995, p. 152-153, no. 55.

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