Spherical Flask with Collar at Shoulder

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Spherical Flask with Collar at Shoulder

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Eastern Mediterranean, perhaps Syro-Palestinian

DateProbably second century

DimensionsH: 5 7/16 in. (13.8 cm);
H body: 3 1/8 in. (8 cm);
Max Diam: 3 3/16 in. (8.05 cm);
Diam Rim: 1 3/4 in. (4.5-4.4 cm);
Diam Base: 1 9/16 in. (4 cm)

MediumMedium thin glass. Free and mold blown.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1085

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DescriptionTransparent manganese colored streaked grayish red (10 R 4/2). Pinprick bubbles elongated vertically in neck. Neck and mouth free blown. Body blown into a four-part mold of three vertical sections joined to a disk-shaped base section (MCT III). Relief crisp except just above the base. No pontil mark. Everted rim, rounded and partially thickened in flame, with tool mark along interior. Tall tubular neck, with slight bulge above constriction at its base. Shoulder sloping to horizontal edge above shoulder collar. Spherical body with walls curving down to vertical edge above concave base. On the body, sunken relief design of nine interlocking circles with a dot in the center of each, bordered above and below by a double row of dots. On underside of base, a raised circle around a small central knob.

Published ReferencesGrose, David F., "Ancient Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News 20 (1978), 67-90, fig. 20.

Grose, David F., "The Origins and Early History of Glass," in D. Klein and W. Lloyd eds., The History of Glass (London 1984) p. 37, ill.

Stern, E. Marianne, Roman Mold-blown Glass: the First through Sixth Centuries, "L'Erma" di Bretschneider in Association with the Toledo Museum of Art, Rome, Italy, 1995, no. 116, p. 189, colorpl. 18, p. 57.