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

DescriptionThis small bottle was created by free blowing and tooling glass with a striking striped mosaic decoration. It features an outsplayed rim with a closed, cut-out tubular ledge below an upright rim, a short cylindrical neck, a piriform body, and a slightly concave bottom. The striped mosaic pattern was formed from vertical lengths of a single cane with parallel strips in purple, dark blue, and opaque white. Each length begins on one side of the rim, extends downward across the body and base—becoming progressively wider—and continues up the opposite side, forming a continuous loop of color.

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.