Bulbous Bottle with Herringbone Pattern (Sprinkler)

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Bulbous Bottle with Herringbone Pattern (Sprinkler)

Place of OriginAncient Rome, probably Syria or inland Palestine

DateThird century

DimensionsH: 3 7/16 in. (8.8 cm)

MediumGlass; mold blown; mold sutures visible. Translucent uncolored glass, greenish tinge

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1340

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. Numerous pinprick and small bubbles. Black specks. Stone. Transparent natural pale green (10 G 6/2). Neck and mouth free blown. Body blown into a two-part mold with two vertical sections (MCT VIII). One continuous mold seam extends around body and across underside of base. Edges of mold not carefully aligned. Relief crisp. Pontil mark ca. 1.8 cm in diameter. Tooled. Rim outsplayed at a 45-degree angle, rounded and thickened in flame. Short tubular neck, with a constriction at its base where an interior cutout forms a diaphragm with an aperture of ca. 0.3 cm. Ovoid body with greatest diameter near middle. Convex base (vessel cannot stand). On the body, two horizontal herringbone motifs to right, bordered at shoulder by a row of eleven squares in raised outline.

Published ReferencesStern, E. Marianne, Roman Mold-blown Glass: The First through Sixth Centuries, Rome, "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 1995, p. 196-197, no. 131.