Bottle
Bottle
Place of OriginProbably Italy
DateEarly to mid-first century CE
DimensionsH: 4 3/16 in. (10.7 cm); Rim Diam: 1 in. (2.5 cm); Diam: 2 3/8 in. (6.1 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.408
Not on View
DescriptionTall bottle. Outsplayed rim with a closed, cut-out tubular ledge below an upright lip; tall, narrow cylindrical neck; piriform body with convex sides; slightly concave bottom. Striped mosaic pattern formed from vertical lengths of two canes: one in a dark blue ground with opaque white parallel lines; the other, represented by only two lengths, in a colorless ground with blue, opaque white, and pale purple parallel lines. 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. 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. 610, p. 340.
Arts, P.L.W., "A Collection of Ancient Glass 500 BC - 500 AD," ANTIEK Lochem, 2000, p. 92.
Exhibition HistoryCedar Rapids Museum of Art, Art in Roman Life: Villa to Grave, September 2003-August 2005 (no catalog).
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
First century BCE
Second to mid-first century BCE
2nd to mid-1st century BCE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
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