Glass hexagonal bottle

Unknown

1st half of 1st century CE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Translucent blue green. Thick rim, folded out, round, and in; tall cylindrical neck; sloping, slightly convex shoulder; squat body with hexagonal sides; low base with flat bottom. Decoration in relief in three registers: on shoulder, six arches, each containing an unidentified domed object; on body, six square panels, divided by columns with capitals and bases, each containing an object: 1, a footed bowl; 2, a pine cone; 3, a footed jar with rounded objects (fruit ?) emerging from its rim; 4, (missing); 5, another pine cone; 6, a handled vase with conical lid; below, continuous band of twenty-two radiating upturned tongues; on bottom, raised broad circle around edge and dot at center. Broken and repaired, with several large holes in shoulder and body; pinprick bubbles; slight dulling and faint iridescence, with patches of encrusted thick creamy brown weathering. Made in the same mold as 17.194.229.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1st half of 1st century CE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917