Glass flask decorated with intersecting circles

Unknown

2nd–3rd century CE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Translucent colorless with pale yellow green tinge. Plain rounded rim; upper half of neck funnel-shaped, then more cylindrical but still tapering downwards, with tooling indents around base; horizontal but slightly pushed-in shoulder, above vertical collar; spherical body; low base with rounded edge and concave bottom; no pontil mark. Body blown into a four-part mold of three vertical sections, joined to a shallow, disk-shaped base section. On body, sunken relief design of nine interlocking circles with a dot at the center of each circle, bordered above and below by a double row of smaller dots; on bottom, two faint raised circles around a small central knob. Intact; deep pitting, weathering, and brilliant iridescence.

Artist

Unknown

Date

2nd–3rd century CE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Bequest of Mary Anna Palmer Draper, 1915