Glass flask decorated with intersecting circles
Translucent colorless with pale yellow green tinge.
Plain rounded rim; upper half of neck funnel-shaped, then more cylindrical but still tapering downwards, with tooling indents around base; horizontal but slightly pushed-in shoulder, above vertical collar; spherical body; low base with rounded edge and concave bottom; no pontil mark. Body blown into a four-part mold of three vertical sections, joined to a shallow, disk-shaped base section.
On body, sunken relief design of nine interlocking circles with a dot at the center of each circle, bordered above and below by a double row of smaller dots; on bottom, two faint raised circles around a small central knob.
Intact; deep pitting, weathering, and brilliant iridescence.
Plain rounded rim; upper half of neck funnel-shaped, then more cylindrical but still tapering downwards, with tooling indents around base; horizontal but slightly pushed-in shoulder, above vertical collar; spherical body; low base with rounded edge and concave bottom; no pontil mark. Body blown into a four-part mold of three vertical sections, joined to a shallow, disk-shaped base section.
On body, sunken relief design of nine interlocking circles with a dot at the center of each circle, bordered above and below by a double row of smaller dots; on bottom, two faint raised circles around a small central knob.
Intact; deep pitting, weathering, and brilliant iridescence.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass flask decorated with intersecting circles
- Period: Imperial
- Date: 2nd–3rd century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown in a four-part mold
- Dimensions: H.: 4 1/2 x 3 3/8 x 2 x 1 5/8 in. (11.4 x 8.6 x 5.1 x 4.1 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Bequest of Mary Anna Palmer Draper, 1915
- Object Number: 15.43.175
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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