Bottle
Bottle
Place of OriginProbably Italy
DateEarly to mid-first century CE
DimensionsH: 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm); Rim Diam: 15/16 in. (2.3 cm); Diam (body): 2 5/16 in. (5.8 cm)
MediumAssembled from lengths of mosaic cane and free blown; tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1486
Not on View
DescriptionOutsplayed rim with a closed, cut-out tubular ledge, sloping obliquely outward; tall, cylindrical neck with a slight upward taper; ovoid body with convex sides; slightly concave bottom. Striped mosaic pattern formed from vertical lengths of a single cane in an opaque white ground encased in pale yellow glass (appearing dark opaque yellow) and flanked on one side by a strip of golden-brown and on the other by a strip of blue, the latter also encased in pale yellow (thereby appearing green). 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.
Striped mosaic pattern formed from vertical lengths of a single cane in an opaque white ground encased in pale yellow glass (appearing dark opaque yellow) and flanked on one side by a strip of golden-brown and on the other by a strip of blue, the lat-ter
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. 611, p. 340, repr. (col.) p. 240, ill. p. 432.
Luckner, Kurt T. and Sandra E. Knudsen, "Early Ancient Glass in the Toledo Museum of Art," MINERVA, vol. 1, no. 1, Jan. 1990, p. 33, fig. 4.
Arts, P.L.W., "A Collection of Ancient Glass 500 BC - 500 AD," ANTIEK Lochem, 2000, p. 92.
Early to mid-first century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Early to mid-first century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Early to mid-first century CE
about 1875-1880
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
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