Unguentarium
Unguentarium
Place of OriginProbably Italy
DateEarly to mid-first century CE
Dimensions3 7/16 x 1 15/16 in. (8.7 x 4.9 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.406
Not on View
DescriptionBottle with tall cylindrical neck, straight-sided ovoid body, and slightly concave base. The surface features a striped mosaic pattern formed from alternating vertical canes: one with a dark blue core encased in colorless glass and flanked by narrow strips of opaque white; the other with an opaque white core encased in purple and edged in blue. Each cane begins on one side of the rim, extends down the body and across the base, then continues up the opposite side to the rim. Made using free-blown techniques; threads were picked up, reinflated, and tooled.
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, New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, 1989, cat. no. 613, p. 340-341, repr. p. 341.
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
Mid-4th through early 3rd centuries BCE
Late 6th through 5th century BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd centuries BCE
Late 6th - 5th century BCE
First century BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd century BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
3rd century BCE
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