Glass bottle
Translucent yellow green; handles and trail in translucent turquoise blue.
Outsplayed rim, folded over and in, with beveled outer edge; cylindrical neck, tooled in at base; elongated, slender piriform body; tubular base ring made by folding; pushed-in bottom with thick pontil scar; two rod handles applied as long trails on sides of body, drawn up to just below junction with neck, then drawn out, up, and in as loops, and pressed onto lower part of neck over trail.
The handle trails are decorated with numerous, irregular, tooled notches; a single trail applied under bottom of one handle and wound up in a spiral almost seven times around neck, ending on rim.
Intact, except for sections of trail around neck; some pinprick bubbles and prominent blowing striations; patches of thick creamy brown weathering and iridescence.
With applied threads.
Outsplayed rim, folded over and in, with beveled outer edge; cylindrical neck, tooled in at base; elongated, slender piriform body; tubular base ring made by folding; pushed-in bottom with thick pontil scar; two rod handles applied as long trails on sides of body, drawn up to just below junction with neck, then drawn out, up, and in as loops, and pressed onto lower part of neck over trail.
The handle trails are decorated with numerous, irregular, tooled notches; a single trail applied under bottom of one handle and wound up in a spiral almost seven times around neck, ending on rim.
Intact, except for sections of trail around neck; some pinprick bubbles and prominent blowing striations; patches of thick creamy brown weathering and iridescence.
With applied threads.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass bottle
- Period: Late Imperial or Early Byzantine
- Date: 5th century CE
- Culture: Roman, Syrian
- Medium: Glass; blown, trailed, and tooled
- Dimensions: H.: 7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of Elias Kempner, 1934
- Object Number: 34.132.46
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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