Glass one-handled bottle
Translucent yellow green; handle in same color.
Collared rim folded out, down, round, up, and out, with a stepped profile and a flattened upper edge; cylindrical neck, with tooling indent around the base; conical body with bulbous side curving in at base; hollow, slightly outsplayed foot ring; pushed-in bottom; strap handle with a single central projecting rib applied to top of body, drawn up and outwards in a loop, then turned in, and pressed onto side of rim, with vertical projecting flat thumb rest and trail ending on top of neck; at lower end of handle, a long trail extends down side of body, tooled with seven horizontal notches.
Intact; some bubbles and a few glassy inclusions; faint weathering on exterior, patches of soil encrusted weathering and iridescence on interior.
Collared rim folded out, down, round, up, and out, with a stepped profile and a flattened upper edge; cylindrical neck, with tooling indent around the base; conical body with bulbous side curving in at base; hollow, slightly outsplayed foot ring; pushed-in bottom; strap handle with a single central projecting rib applied to top of body, drawn up and outwards in a loop, then turned in, and pressed onto side of rim, with vertical projecting flat thumb rest and trail ending on top of neck; at lower end of handle, a long trail extends down side of body, tooled with seven horizontal notches.
Intact; some bubbles and a few glassy inclusions; faint weathering on exterior, patches of soil encrusted weathering and iridescence on interior.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass one-handled bottle
- Period: Early to Mid Imperial
- Date: late 1st–early 2nd century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown and tooled
- Dimensions: Diam.: 3 3/8 x 1 1/4 x 1 3/4 in. (8.6 x 3.2 x 4.4 cm)
H.: 5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881
- Object Number: 81.10.251
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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19th century
Probably Wistarburgh Glassworks
1738–ca. 1777
Attributed to American Flint Glass Manufactory
Attributed to Henry William Stiegel
1769–74
late 13th century
American
1850–60
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