Glass one-handled bottle

Roman

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Translucent pale blue-green; handle and trail in same color.

Plain, rounded rim; broad, deep, cup-shaped mouth; cylindrical neck; narrow, sloping shoulder; bell-shaped body; pushed-in bottom with off-center, circular pontil pad; rod handle applied to top of body with irregular pad to one side, drawn upward in a convex curve, turned in and down, and attached over trail as a fold to underside of mouth, and cut off slightly above rim.

On underside of mouth, a thick trail wound round as a spiral four-and-a-half times; on lower neck, another thick trail would round slightly more than once; on body and extending onto bottom, a pattern of fine, close-set spiral ribs.

Intact; a few pinprick bubbles; dulling, pitting, iridescence, creamy weathering, and soil encrustation.

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