Spherical Bottle with Raised Dot Pattern (Sprinkler)

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Spherical Bottle with Raised Dot Pattern (Sprinkler)

Place of OriginAncient Rome, probably Syria or inland Palestine

DateProbably third century

DimensionsH: 4 1/8 in. (10.4 cm); Rim Diam: 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm); Body Diam: 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm)

MediumGlass; mold blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1339

Not on View

DescriptionTranslucent to transparent manganese-colored dusky-red (5 R 3/4). 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). Underside of base smoothed, mold seam not visible. Edges of mold carefully aligned. Relief indistinct. No pontil mark. Tooled. Rim outsplayed at a 45-degree angle, folded outward, upward, and inward. Tubular slightly bulging neck, with a constriction at its base where an interior cut-out forms a diaphragm with an aperture of ca. 0.6 cm. Spherical body. Convex base (vessel cannot stand). On the body, six rows of ten raised dots, bordered above by horizontal raised ridges. A seventh row of dots near the bottom borders a row of small empty cavities instead of dots.

Published ReferencesStern, E. Marianne, Roman Mold-blown Glass: The First through Sixth Centuries, Rome, "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 1995, p. 197, no. 133.