Glass two-handled bottle

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Translucent cobalt blue; handles in same color.
Everted rim, folded down, round, and in; flaring mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; ovoid body; concave bottom; two rod handles applied to side of neck, drawn up, round, down, and in in a curving loop, and pressed on to base of neck and top of body with flat pad and sliced off edge.
Intact; many bubbles, with a few very large; little weathering on exterior, patches of faint weathering and iridescence on interior.

Blown, blue, two added handled.

Glass two-handled bottle, Glass, Roman

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