Bottle

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Object Name: 
Bottle
Place Made: 
Eastern Mediterranean
Italy
Accession Number: 
50.1.11
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 10.6 cm; Diam (max): 7.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
99 BCE-99 CE
Primary Description: 
Translucent blue glass with opaque white trail; blown. Globular body; rim outsplayed and rounded; narrow cylindrical neck which splays at bottom and merges with body; narrow base with slight concavity; double spiral of opaque white glass, embedded in blue matrix, extends from center of base to rim; no pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
Steuben Glass, Inc., Former Collection
1950
Kouchakji, Fahim (b. Syria, 1886-1976), Former Collection
Category: 
Roman
Color: 
Translucent blue
white
Technique: 
glassblowing
Material: 
glass

Publications (2)

Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, Volume Two (2001) pp. 206-207, pl. 768; BIB# 58895
Treasures in Glass (1966) illustrated, p. 16, #10; BIB# 28036