Tear Glass

Roman

  • Titles Tear Glass (Descriptive)
  • Medium glass
  • Dimensions Overall: 3 3/8 x 1 7/8 in. (8.6 x 4.8 cm) Overall1: 5/8 in. (1.6 cm)
  • Credit Line The Rose Garland Rives Collection, by museum purchase, 1956.176
  • Work Type glass
  • 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.