Glass bottle in the shape of a bunch of grapes

Roman, Syrian

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Translucent green.

Tubular rim folded out, down, over, and up, with beveled, uneven outer lip; cylindrical neck with slight horizontal tooled indent around base; pushed-in shoulder, with hollow projecting roll below; ovoid body; low cylindrical base, with concave bottom. Pontil scar at center of bottom. Body blown into a three-part mold of two vertical sections, extending from base to top of body, and a disk-shaped base section.

On body, a pattern of stylized grapes comprising eleven interlocking rows of twenty-two unevenly-spaced hemispherical knobs, and at top two indistinct leaves opposite each other, centered between the mold seams; on bottom, three narrow raised concentric circles.

Complete, but large hole in one side of body; elongated bubbles in neck and black impurities in rim; patches brownish soil-encrusted weathering, and some faint iridescence.

Glass bottle in the shape of a bunch of grapes, Glass, Roman, Syrian

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