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Ovoid Bottle with Stylized Grape Pattern
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Ovoid Bottle with Stylized Grape Pattern

Place of OriginAncient Rome, probably Syria or inland Palestine
DateProbably third century
DimensionsH: 5 3/8 in. (13.6 cm); Rim Diam: 1 3/8 in. (3.4 cm); Body Diam: 2 9/16 in. (6.5 cm); Base Diam: 1 9/16 in. (4.0 cm)
MediumGlass; mold blown and tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1083
Not on View
DescriptionTranslucent dark grayish-green (near 10 GY 4/2). Thick glass. Numerous pinprick and small vertically elongated bubbles in neck. Neck free blown. Body and collar above shoulder blown into a three-part mold of two vertical sections joined to a disk-shaped base section (MCT VII). Vertical mold seams halfway between the leaves. Relief indistinct. Pontil mark ca. 1.22 cm. Rim folded outward, upward, and inward. Tall cylindrical neck, with constriction at its base. Collar above shoulder. Ovoid body. Slightly concave base. On the body, stylized pattern of grapes consisting of ten interlocking rows of twenty-one contiguous hemispherical knobs. At the shoulder, opposite each other and centered between the mold seams, two small vestigial leaves. Underside of base undecorated. CLASSIFICATION: Stylized Grape Bottle, Series A
Published ReferencesHayes, John W., Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1975, no. 91. (A close parallel dated to "probably 3rd century A.D.").

Stern, E. Marianne, Roman Mold-blown Glass: The First through Sixth Centuries, Rome, "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 1995, p. 193, no. 124

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