Glass rectangular bottle
Translucent blue green, with same color handles.
Thick rim folded out, round, and in, and pressed into top of broad, oval mouth; oval neck, expanding downwards, with tooling indents around base; horizontal shoulder with rounded, sloping corners; vertical, thick-walled sides, with irregular patterns of shallow grooves on front and back (from mold ?); rectangular bottom with irregular, off-center indent; two broad strap handles, tooled into three ribs on outer surface, attached to outer edge of shoulder on short sides, drawn up vertically, turned in at an acute angle and trailed onto top of neck and underside of rim.
Mold mark on bottom comprising a large lozenge enclosing a circle in relief.
Cracked and broken, with about half of rim missing and one hole in top of body below one handle; slight dulling and iridescence on exterior; areas of thick soil encrustation, weathering, and iridescence on interior.
Thick rim folded out, round, and in, and pressed into top of broad, oval mouth; oval neck, expanding downwards, with tooling indents around base; horizontal shoulder with rounded, sloping corners; vertical, thick-walled sides, with irregular patterns of shallow grooves on front and back (from mold ?); rectangular bottom with irregular, off-center indent; two broad strap handles, tooled into three ribs on outer surface, attached to outer edge of shoulder on short sides, drawn up vertically, turned in at an acute angle and trailed onto top of neck and underside of rim.
Mold mark on bottom comprising a large lozenge enclosing a circle in relief.
Cracked and broken, with about half of rim missing and one hole in top of body below one handle; slight dulling and iridescence on exterior; areas of thick soil encrustation, weathering, and iridescence on interior.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass rectangular bottle
- Period: Mid Imperial
- Date: 2nd–3rd century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; mold-blown
- Dimensions: Overall: 7 3/8 x 4 1/4 x 2 3/4 in. (18.7 x 10.8 x 7 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.217
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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