Glass flask decorated with intersecting circles

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Translucent colorless with pale blue green tinge.
Uneven rounded rim with slight inward lip on one side; upper half of neck funnel-shaped, then more cylindrical but tapering downwards; pushed in shoulder, above vertical collar; spherical body; projecting round edge to base 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, a raised circle around a small central knob.
Intact; some bubbles and blowing striations, with a sharp, trail-like swirl on inside of neck, shoulder, and collar; dulling, pitting, and iridescence on exterior, patches of weathering on interior.

Decorated with intersecting circles.

Glass flask decorated with intersecting circles, Glass, Roman

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