Squat Bulbous Bottle

Place of OriginRoman Empire

Date1st century CE

DimensionsH: 2 13/16 in. (7.1 cm); Rim Diam: 25/32 in. (2.0 cm); Diam (body): 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm)

MediumFree blown, threads picked up and combed, reinflated and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1480

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DescriptionThis squat bulbous bottle was made by free-blowing glass, picking up threads, combing them, reinflating, and tooling the shape. The glass is translucent amber (near 10 YR 6/6) with medium-thin walls and contains pinprick bubbles in the body and small vertically elongated bubbles in the neck. An opaque white thread was added, melted into the surface, and combed upward to form an irregular pattern of quadruple festoons. The bottle has an everted rim that is rounded and thickened in the flame, a tall slightly tapering neck with a curved transition to the shoulder, and a squat bulbous body with its greatest diameter near the shoulder. The base is flattened.