Bottle
Bottle
Place of OriginProbably Italy
DateEarly to mid-first century CE
DimensionsH: 5 1/8 in. (13 cm); Rim Diam: 1 in. (2.5 cm); Body Diam: 2 13/16 in. (7.1 cm)
MediumGlass; assembled from lengths of cane and blown, tooled constriction at the junction of the neck and body.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1488
Not on View
DescriptionTall bottle. Outsplayed rim with a closed, cut-out tubular ledge, sloping obliquely outward, below an upright lip; tall, uneven cylindrical neck with an upward taper; broad piriform body with convex sides; slightly concave bottom. Striped mosaic pattern formed from alternating vertical lengths of two canes: one in a dark blue ground encasing opaque white and flanked by opaque white lines; the other in a purple ground encasing opaque white. Each length extends from the rim to the center of the bottom, becoming progressively wider from the rim to the greatest diameter of the body, then tapering to the bottom.
Striped mosaic pattern formed from alternating vertical lengths of two canes: one in a dark blue ground encasing opaque white and flanked by opaque white lines; the other in a purple ground encasing opaque white.
Published ReferencesGrose, David F., "Ancient Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News 20, no. 3, 1978, pp.76-77, fig- 11.
Grose, David F., "The Origins and Early History of Glass," in The History of Glass, eds. Dan Klein and Ward Lloyd, 1984, p. 23, ill.
Grose, David F., "Innovation and change in ancient technologies: The anomalous case of the Roman glass industry," in High-technology ceramics, Westerville, OH, 1986, p. 71, fig. 9, p. 72.
Grose, 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, Catalog No. 608, p. 339, drawing, p. 432.
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
Second to mid-first century BCE
1st century BCE - 4th century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
First century BCE
First century BCE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Membership
Become a TMA member today
Support TMA
Help support the TMA mission