Ampulla or Bottle

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Object Name: 
Ampulla or Bottle
Place Made: 
Western Europe
Accession Number: 
56.3.101
Dimensions: 
H: 4.5 cm, D (body): 2.2 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1401-1600
Primary Description: 
Transparent pale green slightly bubbly glass; few specks of brown decomposition; free-blown. Spherical body with applied pad base having slight pontil mark, slender cylindrical neck with ring-like infolded flattened rim.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, Source
1956
Color: 
Transparent pale green
Technique: 
free-blown