Bottle
Bottle
Place of OriginProbably Italy
DateEarly to mid-first century CE
DimensionsH: 11.6 cm (4 5/8 in.); Max Diam: 8.4 cm (3 3/8 in.); Rim Diam: 1 5/16 in. (3.4 cm)
MediumMosaic-glass technique. Assembled from sections of cane and blown; rotary-polished on the rim.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1478
Not on View
DescriptionTranslucent golden-brown and opaque white glass canes.
Tall bottle. Almost horizontal rim, sloping obliquely inward, with a rounded edge; tall, cylindrical neck with a slight downward taper; broad, straight-sided conical body with the greatest diameter just above the basal angle; slightly concave bottom. Marbled mosaic pattern formed from large, irregularly opaque white parallel lines and irregular zigzags. Five sections make up the vessel.
Marbled mosaic pattern formed from large, irregularly shaped sections of a single cane in a golden-brown ground with opaque white parallel lines and irregular zigzags.
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. 609, p. 339-340, repr. (col.) p. 239, ill. p. 432.
Page, Jutta-Annette, The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, Toledo Museum of Art, 2006, p. 30, fig. 7A, repr. (col.) p. 31.
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
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Second to mid-first century BCE
2nd to mid-1st century BCE
Probably 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
First century BCE
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