Glass bottle
Translucent deep green, streaked with red; trails in opaque white.
Rim slightly everted and partially turned into mouth, flattened on top; tall, slender neck with slightly concave profile and horizontal tooled indent around the base; squat, biconical body; small bottom, slightly concave at center.
A thick single trail applied around edge of rim and flattened across top of rim; another trail applied around mid-point on neck as a coil, forming a thin projecting disk; a third trail applied to bottom edge of body as an outsplayed base ring.
Intact; bubbles and some gritty inclusions; dulling, surface pitting of bubbles, and faint iridescence.
Rim slightly everted and partially turned into mouth, flattened on top; tall, slender neck with slightly concave profile and horizontal tooled indent around the base; squat, biconical body; small bottom, slightly concave at center.
A thick single trail applied around edge of rim and flattened across top of rim; another trail applied around mid-point on neck as a coil, forming a thin projecting disk; a third trail applied to bottom edge of body as an outsplayed base ring.
Intact; bubbles and some gritty inclusions; dulling, surface pitting of bubbles, and faint iridescence.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass bottle
- Period: Late Imperial
- Date: ca. 4th century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; rod formed and trailed
- Dimensions: H.: 7 1/16 in. (17.9 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.169
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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Probably Wistarburgh Glassworks
1738–ca. 1777
Greek, perhaps from Asia Minor
2nd century BCE
19th century
Roman, Cypriot
mid-1st century CE
Attributed to American Flint Glass Manufactory
Attributed to Henry William Stiegel
1769–74
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