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Pine Cone-shaped Bottle

DateMid- to second half of the first century
DimensionsH: 3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm); Max Diam: 2 5/16 in. (5.85 cm); Rim Diam: 1 1/8 in. (2.8 cm)
MediumGlass; mold blown.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.678
Not on View
DescriptionPine cone-shaped bottle of translucent grayish yellow-green glass (5 GY 7/2). The thin glass shows numerous small spherical bubbles in the neck and body, with some vertically elongated bubbles in the neck. Rim tooled and folded outward, upward, and inward. The cylindrical neck and pine cone-shaped body were blown into a two-part mold with one continuous mold seam around the body that extends onto both sides of the neck (MCT VIII E). The surface is decorated with a pattern of oval scales with central dimples, imitating the scales of a hanging pine cone.
Published ReferencesGrose, David F., "Ancient Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News 20, 1978, p. 83, fig. 20.

Grose, David F., "The Origins and Early History of Glass," in D. Klein and W. Lloyd eds., The History of Glass, London, 1984, p. 37, ill.

Stern, E. Marianne, Roman Mold-blown Glass: The First through Sixth Centuries, Rome, "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 1995, p. 181-182, no. 111, color pl. 17.

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