Bottle

Rome, Italy

  • Titles Bottle (Descriptive)
  • Medium glass
  • Dimensions Overall: 1 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. (3.8 x 12.1 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Malcolm M. Grant, Jr. and Matthew H. Davidson III, 1985.140
  • Work Type bottle
  • Classification Containers

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Tall unguentarium, or tear vase or bottle, in the form of a candlestick with a bulbous base and long neck with flared lip of blown glass with iridescent shades of green, gold and purple.
Small, roundish bottle, or jar, of blown bluish-green, slightly translucent and iridescent glass with two curved handles and a thin bail handle of a different green glass, with narrow neck, the body decorated with applied, thin glass bands above a thicker, band of darker blue-green glass applied in a zig-zag pattern.