Glass bottle
Colorless, with greenish tinge.
Plain, vertical, rounded rim; cylindrical neck, tapering downward, with tooled indent around base; globular body; integral, tubular, flaring base ring; lopsided, pushed-in bottom, with pontil scar at center.
On body, a band of two broad, wheel-cut lines slightly above point of greatest diameter, and another band of irregular wheel-cut lines above base ring.
Intact; many pinprick bubbles; some dulling, heavy pitting and weathering, with brilliant iridescence.
Plain, vertical, rounded rim; cylindrical neck, tapering downward, with tooled indent around base; globular body; integral, tubular, flaring base ring; lopsided, pushed-in bottom, with pontil scar at center.
On body, a band of two broad, wheel-cut lines slightly above point of greatest diameter, and another band of irregular wheel-cut lines above base ring.
Intact; many pinprick bubbles; some dulling, heavy pitting and weathering, with brilliant iridescence.
Artwork Details
- Title:Glass bottle
- Period:Mid to Late Imperial
- Date:ca. 2nd–3rd century CE
- Culture:Roman
- Medium:Glass; blown and cut
- Dimensions:H.: 5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm)
- Classification:Glass
- Credit Line:Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915
- Object Number:30.115.47
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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