Glass two-handled bottle
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.
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.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass two-handled bottle
- Period: Early Imperial
- Date: 1st century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown
- Dimensions: H. 4 7/8 in. (12.40 cm.)
diameter: 3 in. (7.6 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.157
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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