Glass flask decorated with intersecting circles
Translucent blue green.
Unworked, knocked-off rim; short cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; sloping shoulder, above tall concave collar; spherical body; projecting rounded edge to base with flat bottom; no pontil mark. Body blown into a four-part mold of three vertical sections, extending to bottom of collar, joined to a shallow, disk-shaped base section.
On body, sunken relief design of nine interlocking circles with a dot at the center of each circle, bordered above and below by a double row of smaller dots; on bottom, two raised circles, the outer one faint and thinner, around a small central knob.
Intact, except for chips around rim; some bubbles; patchy weathering and iridescence.
Unworked, knocked-off rim; short cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; sloping shoulder, above tall concave collar; spherical body; projecting rounded edge to base with flat bottom; no pontil mark. Body blown into a four-part mold of three vertical sections, extending to bottom of collar, joined to a shallow, disk-shaped base section.
On body, sunken relief design of nine interlocking circles with a dot at the center of each circle, bordered above and below by a double row of smaller dots; on bottom, two raised circles, the outer one faint and thinner, around a small central knob.
Intact, except for chips around rim; some bubbles; patchy weathering and iridescence.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass flask decorated with intersecting circles
- Period: Imperial
- Date: 2nd–3rd century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown in a four-part mold
- Dimensions: H.: 4 5/16 in. (11 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.250
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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