Bottle
Bottle
Place of OriginProbably Italy
DateEarly to mid-first century CE
DimensionsH: 3 1/4 in. (8.2 cm); W: 7/8 in. (2.2 cm); Diam: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.409
Not on View
DescriptionSmall bottle. Outsplayed rim with a closed, cut-out tubular ledge below an upward- and inward-sloping lip; short cylindrical neck with a slight bulge at its middle; broad piriform body; slightly concave bottom. Striped mosaic pattern formed from vertical lengths of a single cane consisting of parallel strips in dark blue, opaque white, and possibly purple. Each length begins on one side of the rim, extends downward over the body and across the bottom (becoming progressively wider), and continues upward on the other side, ending on the opposite side of the rim.
Striped mosaic pattern formed from vertical lengths of a single cane consisting of parallel strips in dark blue, opaque white, and possibly purple.
Glass; free blown, threads 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. 614, p. 341, drawing p. 432.
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
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
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
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