flask

Object NameGrape Flask

Made FromGlass

Date200-399

TechniqueMold-blown, reworked

SizeOverall H: 13.2 cm, Diam (max): 6.5 cm; Rim Diam: 3.7 cm

Accession Number57.1.8

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Exhibitions

Ennion and His Legacy: Mold-Blown Glass From Ancient Rome

Glass, the Mildred C. Howe Collection

Place Made

Eastern Mediterranean; probably Syria; probably Palestine

Physical DescriptionTranslucent dark amber glass with many bubbles; mold-blown, two- part mold; rim reworked. Ovoid body in form of bunch of grapes; rim horizontally outsplayed, turned upward and inward; tall cylindrical neck with slight constriction above pronounced hollow collar; body covered with ten rows of hollow knobs, probably representing grapes, with single ivy leaf at top at center of each side; low rounded base molding with series of faint concentric rings on underside; pontil scar.
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