Glass mosaic bottle

1st half of 1st century CE

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Translucent honey brown and opaque white.
Everted, slightly beveled rim with angular outer lip; cylindrical neck, tapering downward, with tooling indents around top below rim; squat globular body; slightly concave bottom.
Marbled mosaic pattern formed from sections of a single cane in a brown ground with white parallel lines in a irregular zigzag pattern.
Intact; dulling, slight pitting, whitish iridescent weathering, and inside neck and body soil encrustation.
Rotary grinding marks on exterior.

Artwork Details

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References

Title: Glass mosaic bottle
Period: Early Imperial, Julio-Claudian
Date: 1st half of 1st century CE
Culture: Roman
Medium: Glass; cast and blown, and tooled
Dimensions: H.: 2 7/16 in. (6.2 cm)
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
Object Number: 91.1.1339
Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art

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