Glass bottle with three feet
Translucent deep cobalt blue.
Solid rim with horizontal everted lip; cylindrical neck; sloping shoulder; globular body with three solid rods around base, drawn out and tooled, ending in splayed and pinched feet; slightly rounded bottom with irregular indent.
Broken, with large hole in rim and neck and most of two legs missing, but body complete; many pinprick bubbles and blowing striations; some pitting and one patch of thick iridescent weathering on exterior, soil encrustation, weathering, and brilliant iridescence on interior.
Solid rim with horizontal everted lip; cylindrical neck; sloping shoulder; globular body with three solid rods around base, drawn out and tooled, ending in splayed and pinched feet; slightly rounded bottom with irregular indent.
Broken, with large hole in rim and neck and most of two legs missing, but body complete; many pinprick bubbles and blowing striations; some pitting and one patch of thick iridescent weathering on exterior, soil encrustation, weathering, and brilliant iridescence on interior.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass bottle with three feet
- Period: Early Imperial
- Date: mid-1st century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown and tooled
- Dimensions: H.: 2 3/4 in. (7 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881
- Object Number: 81.10.270
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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