Glass flask
Colorless.
Uneven, rounded rim with beveled outer lip; flaring mouth; short, cylindrical neck, slightly tooled in around base; elongated piriform body; small, concave bottom.
Wheel-abraded decoration on body in horizontal bands; two broad bands of lines around upper part of body; two thinner bands just below point of greatest diameter. Decoration is now hard to trace because of surface weathering.
Intact; some large and elongated bubbles; dulling, pitting, and iridescent weathering.
Uneven, rounded rim with beveled outer lip; flaring mouth; short, cylindrical neck, slightly tooled in around base; elongated piriform body; small, concave bottom.
Wheel-abraded decoration on body in horizontal bands; two broad bands of lines around upper part of body; two thinner bands just below point of greatest diameter. Decoration is now hard to trace because of surface weathering.
Intact; some large and elongated bubbles; dulling, pitting, and iridescent weathering.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass flask
- Period: Mid Imperial
- Date: 2nd–3rd century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown and cut
- Dimensions: 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm)
Other: 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm)
Diam. of rim: 2 1/16 in. (5.3 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
- Object Number: 74.51.74
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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