Glass bottle with dolphin handles

Roman, Rhenish

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Colorless with pale greyish blue green tinge; handles in same color.
Uneven, cracked-off rim; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards with horizontal tooled indent around base; sloping shoulder with rounded slightly overhanging edge; cylindrical body, tapering slightly downwards and curving in to concave bottom; two small "dolphin" handles dropped onto bottom of neck, drawn down over shoulder, then up and in, forming loop, and trailed off above.
On body, bands of faint horizontal wheel-cut lines, one below shoulder, another halfway down side, and possibly a third near bottom, each comprising two parallel lines.
Body complete, but broken at rim and neck with some losses; bubbles and striations; dulling, creamy white weathering, and iridescence.

Colorless cylindrical bottle with handles in the form of dolphins.

Glass bottle with dolphin handles, Glass, Roman, Rhenish

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