Glass bottle with dolphin handles
Colorless with pale greyish blue green tinge; handles in same color.
Uneven, cracked-off rim; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards with horizontal tooled indent around base; sloping shoulder with rounded slightly overhanging edge; cylindrical body, tapering slightly downwards and curving in to concave bottom; two small "dolphin" handles dropped onto bottom of neck, drawn down over shoulder, then up and in, forming loop, and trailed off above.
On body, bands of faint horizontal wheel-cut lines, one below shoulder, another halfway down side, and possibly a third near bottom, each comprising two parallel lines.
Body complete, but broken at rim and neck with some losses; bubbles and striations; dulling, creamy white weathering, and iridescence.
Colorless cylindrical bottle with handles in the form of dolphins.
Uneven, cracked-off rim; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards with horizontal tooled indent around base; sloping shoulder with rounded slightly overhanging edge; cylindrical body, tapering slightly downwards and curving in to concave bottom; two small "dolphin" handles dropped onto bottom of neck, drawn down over shoulder, then up and in, forming loop, and trailed off above.
On body, bands of faint horizontal wheel-cut lines, one below shoulder, another halfway down side, and possibly a third near bottom, each comprising two parallel lines.
Body complete, but broken at rim and neck with some losses; bubbles and striations; dulling, creamy white weathering, and iridescence.
Colorless cylindrical bottle with handles in the form of dolphins.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass bottle with dolphin handles
- Period: Late Imperial
- Date: 3rd–early 4th century CE
- Culture: Roman, Rhenish
- Medium: Glass; mold-blown and cut
- Dimensions: H.: 4 13/16 in. (12.3 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.188
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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