Candlestick Unguentarium (CS37)

Artist Unidentified

Period Roman Empire (Ancient Roman, 27 BCE-395 CE)

Place of OriginRoman Levant

Datelate 2nd-mid 3rd century CE

Dimensions3 1/16 × 4 3/16 × 2 1/8 in. (7.8 × 10.6 × 5.4 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1908.36A-B

Not on View

DescriptionThis pale green glass vessel is identified as a candlestick unguentarium. It was made from medium-thin free-blown and tooled glass and lacks pontil marks. The form includes a collar rim, outsplayed and rounded in a flame, a tall cylindrical neck with a constriction at its base, and a very large bell-shaped body that accounts for more than two-fifths of the vessel's height. The base is concave. The glass contains small spherical bubbles in the body and vertical bubbles in the neck. Collar rims were common in glass vessels made in Palestinian workshops, though they are infrequently found on unguentaria.