Glass bottle shaped like a bunch of grapes

Unknown

ca. 3rd century CE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Translucent honey brown. Rim folded out, down, over, and up, with beveled outer lip; cylindrical neck with horizontal tooled indent around base; slightly pushed-in horizontal shoulder with hollow projecting roll below; ovoid body; low cylindrical base, with flat bottom. Pontil scar at center of bottom. Body blown into a three-part mold of two vertical sections, extending from base to shoulder, and a disk-shaped base section. On body, a pattern of stylized grapes comprising eleven interlocking rows of twenty-two unevenly-spaced hemispherical knobs, and at top two indistinct leaves front and back between the mold seams, both on the same section of mold. Intact; many bubbles; patches of dulling, limy weathering, and iridescence.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 3rd century CE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Roman, Syrian

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915