Glass bottle with snake-thread decoration

Roman, Rhenish

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Colorless; trails in opaque white and opaque blue.
Everted rim, folded over and in, and smoothed into side of flaring mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; squat, globular body; applied, partially tubular base ring; flat bottom with pontil scar at center.
Around top of neck, a fine blue trail wound in an overlapping spiral; on body, four separate trails, alternately white and blue, each making the same abstract curvilinear design, flattened and serrated at top.
Broken and repaired, with some losses to lower neck and to trail around neck; pinprick bubbles; dulling, some gritty encrustation on bottom inside base ring, and weathering and encrustation on interior.

Vase with blue and white serpentine applied thread bands.

Glass bottle with snake-thread decoration, Glass, Roman, Rhenish

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