Bottle
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Bottle
Place of OriginProbably Italy
DateEarly to mid-first century CE
DimensionsH: 3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm); Rim Diam: 11/16 in. (1.8 cm); Diam: 2 5/16 in. (5.8 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.407
Not on View
DescriptionBottle with outsplayed rim and a closed, cut-out tubular ledge below an upward- and inward-sloping lip. It features a tall, narrow, cylindrical neck, straight-sided piriform body, and a slightly concave base. The vessel is decorated with a striped mosaic pattern formed from vertical lengths of a single cane. Each cane has a dark blue ground encasing opaque white and pale purple. The stripes begin on one side of the rim, descend the body and base (widening as they go), then ascend to the opposite rim.
Published ReferencesGrose, David F., Early Ancient Glass: Core-Formed, Rod-Formed, and Cast Vessels and Objects from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Roman Empire, 1600 B.C. to A.D. 50, Hudson Hills Press in Association with the Toledo Museum of Art, New York, 1989, cat. no. 612, p. 340, repr. (col.) p. 240, drawing, p. 432.
Luckner, Kurt T. and Sandra E. Knudsen, "Early Ancient Glass in the Toledo Museum of Art," MINERVA, vol. 1, no. 1, Jan. 1990, p. 33, fig. 4.
Battie, David and Simon Cottle, eds., Sotheby's Concise Encyclopedia of Glass, London, 1991, repr. p. 29 (col.).
Arts, P.L.W., "A Collection of Ancient Glass 500 BC - 500 AD," ANTIEK Lochem, 2000, p. 92.
Early to mid-first century CE
Early to mid-first century CE
Early to mid-first century CE
Early to mid-first century CE
Early to mid-first century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Early to mid-first century CE
Early to mid-first century CE
First century BCE
Early to mid-first century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
about 1875-1880
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