Primary Description:
Colorless glass with slight yellow-green tinge, some small bubbles, heavily strain-cracked with patches of iridescent film and pitting on exterior surface; cast, probably wheel-cut and polished. Rim rounded by grinding flares out from wide relief-cut band on neck, wall bends in to form long, wide straight-sided neck before spreading out into ovoid body with greatest diameter just below shoulder; the transition between neck and shoulder is highlighted by a second wide relief-cut band, the entire body is decorated with thirty-eight flutes with rounded tops which radiate from a third relief-cut band near the bottom of the vessel; each flute is concave in cross section; the base of the vessel is decorated with a nineteen-petal rosette engraved on the surface and probably radiated from a small circle with a center point.