Bulbous Bottle with Two Handles

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Bulbous Bottle with Two Handles

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Syria or Palestine

Date1st century CE

DimensionsH: 2 29/32 in. (7.4 cm); Rim Diam: 1 in. (2.6 cm); Max Diam: 1 5/8 in. (4.2 cm); Base Diam: 3/4 in. (1.9 cm)

MediumGlass; mold blown and tooled

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.680

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DescriptionTransparent pale olive (near 10 Y 6/2). Similarly colored translucent handles. Medium thin glass. A few pinprick and small spherical bubbles. Neck free blown. Body blown into a two-part mold of two vertical sections (MCT VIII). One continuous mold seam extends across underside of base. Edges of mold not carefully aligned; therefore, base is in two planes. Tips of handles drawn out thin and folded back to base of handle. Rim folded outward, upward, and inward for about five-sixths of circumference. Cylindrical neck. Ovoid body. Base intended to be flat. Two coil handles applied to shoulder and attached halfway up neck. Handles positioned about one-third of the distance between seams. 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 raised ridge. Neck free blown. Body blown into a two-part mold of two vertical sections (MCT VIII). One continuous mold seam extends across underside of base. Edges of mold not carefully aligned; therefore, base is in two planes. Tips of handles drawn out thin and folded back to base of handle. Rim folded outward, upward, and inward for about five-sixths of circumference. Cylindrical neck. Ovoid body. Base intended to be flat. Two coil handles applied to shoulder and attached halfway up neck. Handles positioned about one-third of the distance between seams. 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 raised ridge.

Published ReferencesStern, E. Marianne, Roman Mold-blown Glass: The First through Sixth Centuries, Rome, "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 1995, p. 153, no. 56.

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