Glass one-handled bottle
Translucent pale blue-green; handle and trail in same color.
Plain, rounded rim; broad, deep, cup-shaped mouth; cylindrical neck; narrow, sloping shoulder; bell-shaped body; pushed-in bottom with off-center, circular pontil pad; rod handle applied to top of body with irregular pad to one side, drawn upward in a convex curve, turned in and down, and attached over trail as a fold to underside of mouth, and cut off slightly above rim.
On underside of mouth, a thick trail wound round as a spiral four-and-a-half times; on lower neck, another thick trail would round slightly more than once; on body and extending onto bottom, a pattern of fine, close-set spiral ribs.
Intact; a few pinprick bubbles; dulling, pitting, iridescence, creamy weathering, and soil encrustation.
Plain, rounded rim; broad, deep, cup-shaped mouth; cylindrical neck; narrow, sloping shoulder; bell-shaped body; pushed-in bottom with off-center, circular pontil pad; rod handle applied to top of body with irregular pad to one side, drawn upward in a convex curve, turned in and down, and attached over trail as a fold to underside of mouth, and cut off slightly above rim.
On underside of mouth, a thick trail wound round as a spiral four-and-a-half times; on lower neck, another thick trail would round slightly more than once; on body and extending onto bottom, a pattern of fine, close-set spiral ribs.
Intact; a few pinprick bubbles; dulling, pitting, iridescence, creamy weathering, and soil encrustation.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass one-handled bottle
- Period: Late Imperial
- Date: 4th century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown using a dip mold and trailed
- Dimensions: H.: 4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.299
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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