Glass one-handled bottle

Unknown

late 1st–early 2nd century CE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Translucent yellow green; handle in same color. Collared rim folded out, down, round, up, and out, with a stepped profile and a flattened upper edge; cylindrical neck, with tooling indent around the base; conical body with bulbous side curving in at base; hollow, slightly outsplayed foot ring; pushed-in bottom; strap handle with a single central projecting rib applied to top of body, drawn up and outwards in a loop, then turned in, and pressed onto side of rim, with vertical projecting flat thumb rest and trail ending on top of neck; at lower end of handle, a long trail extends down side of body, tooled with seven horizontal notches. Intact; some bubbles and a few glassy inclusions; faint weathering on exterior, patches of soil encrusted weathering and iridescence on interior.

Artist

Unknown

Date

late 1st–early 2nd century CE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881