Bottle with internal tooling

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Bottle with internal tooling

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Syro-Palestinian coast

Date5th century CE

DimensionsH: 7 13/16 in. (18.5 cm); Diam: 3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm)

MediumGlass; blown, trail-decorated, and tooled

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.534

Not on View

DescriptionTransparent natural pale green (10 G 6/2). Similarly colored thin thread. Translucent light olive (10 Y 5/4) coils. Thin glass. Numerous bubbles ovoid in body, vertically elongated in neck. Free-blown. No pontil mark. Added thread. Tooled internal threads created by poking in lower wall of partially inflated vessel until the glass from the lower wall touches the upper wall, then, as inflation enlarges the vessel body, the poked-in glass lengthens to become a narrow hollow thread. Rim rounded in flame. Tall tubular neck tapering downward with constriction at its base. Gently sloping shoulder. Bulbous body with greatest diameter above middle. Concave base. Around middle two-thirds of neck, ca. 22 revolutions of thin thread, trailed on downward right to left; three thicker coils of contrasting color at top, near middle, and at bottom of thread, trailed on from left to right. On body, eight irregularly spaced, horizontally pinched warts at junction of shoulder and body. Four internal threads from just above base to just below constriction of neck. CLASSIFICATION: Bulbous Bottle I A 1 a.

Published ReferencesGrose, David, "Ancient Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 20, no. 3, 1978, p. 82, repr. fig. 30.

Lees-Causey, Catherine, "Some Roman Glass in The J. Paul Getty Museum," The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, vol. 11, 1983, p. 154.

Grose, David, "The Origins and Early History of Glass," The History of Glass, London, 1984, repr. p. 34.

Page, Jutta-Annette, The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, 2006, p. 47-48, repr. (col.) fig. 17.1. (erroneously numbered 1923.1239 on p. 47)