Glass bottle
Translucent blue green; trails in same color.
Everted, slightly thickened, and rounded rim; broad, flaring mouth; cylindrical neck, tooled in horizontally at base; large conical body, curving in below to thick, pushed-in bottom with central jagged pontil ring.
On underside of mouth, thick solid single trail; another trail wound round top of body 1 1/2 times; on body, ten bands of wheel-abraded lines, arranged in pairs and set at regular intervals down side.
Complete, but broken on one side and repaired with crack running around upper body; many bubbles, some large, a few glassy inclusions in body, and black impurities in trails; faint iridescence, slight whitish weathering on bottom in interior.
Everted, slightly thickened, and rounded rim; broad, flaring mouth; cylindrical neck, tooled in horizontally at base; large conical body, curving in below to thick, pushed-in bottom with central jagged pontil ring.
On underside of mouth, thick solid single trail; another trail wound round top of body 1 1/2 times; on body, ten bands of wheel-abraded lines, arranged in pairs and set at regular intervals down side.
Complete, but broken on one side and repaired with crack running around upper body; many bubbles, some large, a few glassy inclusions in body, and black impurities in trails; faint iridescence, slight whitish weathering on bottom in interior.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass bottle
- Period: Late Imperial
- Date: ca. 4th century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown, trailed, and cut
- Dimensions: Height (fragmentary): 5 1/16 in. (12.9 cm)
Diameter: 3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of Robert L. Hermanos, 1998
- Object Number: 1998.377
- 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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