Glass bottle in the shape of a bird
Not on view
Translucent light blue-green; details in opaque white.
Thick, slanting rim, folded out, round, and in, forming irregular mouth; cylindrical neck; piriform body drawn out into a long, solid end.
On body, six added details, of which one is a pad drawn out to form a leg on underside, and another applied on upper side as a trail in high relief to form a wing; another detail (for the head?) applied to end of body.
Broken around neck and repaired, and much of details broken off; a few bubbles and some blowing striations; dulling, some iridescence and patches of thick limy accretions on neck and body.
The bottle has been turned into the shape of a bird, with the mouth as the tail and the end of the body as the neck, with details added as wings and feet. Two other details, one between the wings on the bird's back, and the other on the underside behind the legs, are indistinct, but the latter served as a stabilizing third foot for the vessel. In Froehner 1903, pl. 46.2 all three feet are shown intact.
