Spherical Bottle with Herringbone Pattern (Sprinkler)

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Spherical Bottle with Herringbone Pattern (Sprinkler)

Place of OriginAncient Rome, probably Syria or inland Palestine

DateThird century

DimensionsH: 3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm); Rim Diam: 2 1/16 in. (5.2 cm); Body Diam: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm)

MediumGlass; mold-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1341

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DescriptionTransparent natural pale green (5 G 7/2). Medium thin glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. 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 carefully aligned. Relief indistinct. No pontil mark. Tooled. Rim outsplayed at an angle and very thin at edge (unworked?), with a slight cutout near the edge. Flaring neck, with a constriction at its base where an interior cutout forms a diaphragm with an aperture of ca. 0.5 cm. Spherical body. Convex base (vessel cannot stand). On the body, two horizontal herringbone motifs to right.

Published ReferencesStern, E. Marianne, Roman Mold-blown Glass: The First through Sixth Centuries, Rome, "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 1995, p. 197, no. 132.