Glass flask decorated with intersecting circles

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Translucent blue green.
Unworked, knocked-off rim; short cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; sloping shoulder, above tall concave collar; spherical body; projecting rounded edge to base with flat bottom; no pontil mark. Body blown into a four-part mold of three vertical sections, extending to bottom of collar, 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 raised circles, the outer one faint and thinner, around a small central knob.
Intact, except for chips around rim; some bubbles; patchy weathering and iridescence.

Glass flask decorated with intersecting circles, Glass, Roman

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