Glass mosaic bottle

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Translucent honey brown and opaque white.
Everted, slightly beveled rim with angular outer lip; cylindrical neck, tapering downward, with tooling indents around top below rim; squat globular body; slightly concave bottom.
Marbled mosaic pattern formed from sections of a single cane in a brown ground with white parallel lines in a irregular zigzag pattern.
Intact; dulling, slight pitting, whitish iridescent weathering, and inside neck and body soil encrustation.
Rotary grinding marks on exterior.

Glass mosaic bottle, Glass, Roman

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