Glass bottle with snake-thread decoration
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.
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.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass bottle with snake-thread decoration
- Period: Late Imperial
- Date: 3rd century CE
- Culture: Roman, Rhenish
- Medium: Glass; blown and trailed
- Dimensions: Height: 3 11/16 in. (9.4 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881
- Object Number: 81.10.176
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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