Glass lentoid bottle with two handles

Roman, Syrian

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Translucent blue green; handle in same color.
Thick, outsplayed, tubular rim, folded over and into shallow flaring mouth; cylindrical neck; lentoid body with rounded sides; thick, narrow oval bottom, slightly concave, with central pontil scar; two rod handles applied as large claw-like pads on lower neck, twisted round, up and outwards, tooled in with a downward fold, attached to edge of rim, and tooled off above.
On body, twelve irregular vertical ribs, made by tooling.
Intact; many pinprick bubbles and some blowing striation; dulling, pitting, creamy weathering, and iridescence, with soil encrustation on interior.

Glass lentoid bottle with two handles, Glass, Roman, Syrian

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