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Object NameDropper Flask Shaped like Helmet

Made FromGlass

Dateabout 201-300

TechniqueBlown, tooled, applied

SizeOverall H: 12.8 cm, Diam (rim): 4.5 cm

Accession Number65.1.14

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Exhibitions

Glass of the Caesars

Place Made

Roman Empire; possibly Rhineland; possibly Syria

Physical DescriptionTransparent green glass; blown, tooled, applied. Inverted helmet-flask form; rim outsplayed, folded up, in and down; cylindrical neck, widely cut in at bottom to narrow opening; ovoid body with tooled crest of helmet on one side and underneath; pontil mark on crest. Trailed decoration: on neck, single horizontal trail; on body, vertical serrated trail extends from bottom of neck almost to crest, representing nose- guard; two shorter serrated trails indicate oval eye-holes; one each side of face, long serrated trail laid on in abstract curvilinear design.
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