Bottle

Place of OriginProbably Italy

DateEarly to mid-first century CE

DimensionsH: 2 15/16 in. (7.5 cm); Rim Diam: 13/16 in. (2.1 cm); Body Diam: 1 21/32 in. (4.2 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown, threads picked up, reinflated and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1487

Not on View

DescriptionSmall bottle. Outsplayed rim with closed, cut-out tubular ledge below an upright rim; short cylindrical neck; piriform body; slightly concave bottom. Striped mosaic pattern formed from vertical lengths of a single cane consisting of parallel strips in purple, dark blue, and opaque white. 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.

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. 615, p. 341.