Glass two-handled bottle

Roman, Syrian

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

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.

Glass two-handled bottle, Glass, Roman, Syrian

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