Glass globular bottle

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Translucent blue green.

Collared rim, folded out, down, round, and up, with slight raise lip to mouth; tall cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; globular body; base with rounded edge and concave bottom. One continuous mold seam around body and across bottom, extending to base of neck and forming a raised line across bottom.

Body decorated in matching relief designs on the two sides: a central twelve-petalled rosette within two concentric circles, and six pelta-like crescents with curling finials and central triangles together with bosses, flanked by a vertical line. The lowest of the crescents on each side is partially obscured by the base.

Broken and repaired at middle of neck, and base chipped and cracked on one side; some bubbles, elongated in neck; one side with soil encrustation and dulling on exterior, whitish weathering and iridescence on interior.

Glass globular bottle, Glass, Roman

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