Glass two-handled bottle
Translucent pale purple; handles, disk, trail, and pontil stud in translucent pale blue green.
Everted rim folded over and in; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards and joining imperceptibly with piriform body; deep pushed-in bottom with central pontil stud; hollow disk around neck, applied over spiral trail; two slender rod handles, attached to upper body with long trails down sides almost to bottom, drawn up (one as angular loop, the other as a straight line), turned in, and pressed on to edge of disk, each with a tooled vertical projection above.
Fine trail applied below rim, trailed down neck in a spiral fourteen times, ending on upper body; downward trails to handles with tooled horizontal notches.
Intact; pinprick bubbles; dulling, slight pitting, iridescence, and patches of brownish weathering.
Purple, pear shaped vase with blue handles and collar, and glass threads around neck.
Everted rim folded over and in; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards and joining imperceptibly with piriform body; deep pushed-in bottom with central pontil stud; hollow disk around neck, applied over spiral trail; two slender rod handles, attached to upper body with long trails down sides almost to bottom, drawn up (one as angular loop, the other as a straight line), turned in, and pressed on to edge of disk, each with a tooled vertical projection above.
Fine trail applied below rim, trailed down neck in a spiral fourteen times, ending on upper body; downward trails to handles with tooled horizontal notches.
Intact; pinprick bubbles; dulling, slight pitting, iridescence, and patches of brownish weathering.
Purple, pear shaped vase with blue handles and collar, and glass threads around neck.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass two-handled bottle
- Period: Late Imperial
- Date: 5th century CE
- Culture: Roman, Syrian
- Medium: Glass; blown, trailed, and tooled
- Dimensions: H.: 5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.296
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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