Bottle
Bottle
Place of OriginProbably Italy
DateEarly to mid-first century CE
DimensionsH: 7.1cm (2 3/4 in.); Rim Diam: 2.1 cm (13/16 in.) Max Diam: 5.0 cm (2 in.)
MediumMosaic glass technique, multiple sections of cane picked up, tooled into an irregular pattern, blown and tooled at shoulder and rim, rotary-polished.
Assembled from sections of cane and blown; rotary-polished on the rim and exterior; tooled constriction at the junction of the neck and body.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1475
Not on View
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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. 616, p. 341, repr. (col.) p. 240, ill. p. 432.
- Glass
Page, Jutta-Annette, The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, Toledo Museum of Art, 2006, p. 30, fig. 7B, repr. (col.) p. 31.
Early to mid-first century CE
Second to mid-first century BCE
probably second century BCE
2nd to mid-1st century BCE
2nd to mid-1st century BCE
Second to mid-first century BCE
probably second century BCE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
2nd to mid-1st century BCE
Second to mid-first century BCE
Second to mid-first century BCE
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