Glass flask
Colorless with blue green tinge; handles, trails, and knob base in deep translucent blue green.
Rounded, slightly inverted rim; cup-shaped mouth; tall, cylindrical neck with horizontal tooled indent around base; conical shoulder; tall, slender piriform body; applied solid coiled base; two rod handles applied to shoulder with horizontal tooling indent across pads, drawn upwards, turned in and down, pressed on to lower neck and trailed off above.
One trail applied to top of neck and wound twice round in a spiral up underside of mouth; a second, thicker trail applied horizontally to neck under tops of handles; on lower half of shoulder and most of body a continuous band of closely-spaced shallow molded ribs that spiral down from left to right; eleven vertical tooled ribs in deep relief extend from edge of shoulder to two-thirds of way down body.
Intact, except for part of lower trail around neck; many pinprick bubbles; deep pitting, thick creamy weathering, and brilliant iridescence covering most of exterior.
Rounded, slightly inverted rim; cup-shaped mouth; tall, cylindrical neck with horizontal tooled indent around base; conical shoulder; tall, slender piriform body; applied solid coiled base; two rod handles applied to shoulder with horizontal tooling indent across pads, drawn upwards, turned in and down, pressed on to lower neck and trailed off above.
One trail applied to top of neck and wound twice round in a spiral up underside of mouth; a second, thicker trail applied horizontally to neck under tops of handles; on lower half of shoulder and most of body a continuous band of closely-spaced shallow molded ribs that spiral down from left to right; eleven vertical tooled ribs in deep relief extend from edge of shoulder to two-thirds of way down body.
Intact, except for part of lower trail around neck; many pinprick bubbles; deep pitting, thick creamy weathering, and brilliant iridescence covering most of exterior.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass flask
- Period: Late Imperial
- Date: 4th century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown using a dip mold, tooled, and trailed
- Dimensions: H.: 8 9/16 in. (21.8 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
- Object Number: 29.100.72
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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