Oil Container

Rome, Italy

Early Imperial period (27 BC-284 AD), About 250 AD

  • Titles Oil Container (Title)
  • Medium glass
  • Dimensions Overall: 8 3/8 in. (21.3 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Mrs. George M. Wheeler, 1978.210.1
  • Work Type vessel
  • Classification Containers

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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.
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.