Bulbous Bottle on Foot
Bulbous Bottle on Foot
Place of OriginRoman Empire
Date3rd-4th century CE
DimensionsH: 7 7/8 in. (20.2 cm); Rim Diam: 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm); Body Diam: 2 13/16 in. (7.2 cm); Base Diam: 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm)
MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.635
Not on View
DescriptionThis object is classified as a Bottle II A 2 h. It is made of transparent natural pale green glass (near 5 G 7/2) with a translucent to opaque dark blue thread. The body and neck were blown into a one-part patterned mold, then twisted and expanded. The glass is thin yet heavy, with a few small bubbles visible, and a pontil mark approximately 1.2 cm. An added thread decorates the vessel.
The rim is rounded in flame with a funnel-shaped mouth. The tubular neck curves smoothly into a gently sloping shoulder that leads to a bulbous body with its greatest diameter at the shoulder. The walls taper to a short, hollow tubular pushed-in stem and a deeply concave base with flaring sides and a pushed-in hollow tubular base ring.
Mold-blown narrow curved corrugations run from the top left to the bottom right across the mouth, neck, and upper body. On the mouth, ten and a half revolutions of thread wrap from left to right beginning at the top of the rim, with an additional coiled buckle halfway down the neck.
Probably mid-fourth to early fifth century
4th-5th century CE
Probably fourth century
Probably first half of sixth century
3rd-4th century CE
3rd-4th century CE
Late fourth to mid-fifth century
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