Glass bottle in the shape of an animal

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Colorless with yellowish tinge; trail and applied feet in same glass.
Thick rim, folded over and in, with flattened upper lip; tubular neck, turned upwards; elongated ovoid body; pontil pad on bottom between ears and mouth; four broad pads applied in pairs on underside of body, tooled and pinched to look like feet.
Single trail wound once around neck; around bottom, side pinched out to form two ears and projecting mouth.
Intact; many pinprick bubbles and blowing striations; dulling, pitting, thick creamy weathering, and iridescence.

The animal is probably to be identified as a mouse.

Glass bottle in the shape of an animal, Glass, Roman

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