bottle

Object NameBottle

Made FromGlass

Date800-999

Techniquemold-blown, wheel-cut

SizeOverall H: 9.9 cm; Body Diam: 6.5 cm

Accession Number75.1.4

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Place Made

Near East; possibly Iran

Physical DescriptionColorless glass with light green tinge, bubbly with some few blowing spirals, dull surface with thin iridescent film; mold-blown and wheel-cut. Short cylindrical neck spreads out into bell-shape body; ground rim; neck is panel cut into six rectangular facets with a horizontal wheel-cut groove below; small section below groove and shoulder are plain; from shoulder six diamond-shape patterns with small diamonds in center interlock with six complete elements around greatest diameter; top points of upper row cut off by mold; flattened base slightly kicked; pontil mark carefully ground into circular depression around which a mold-blown pattern of a rosette with eight circular depressions forming the petals interlocks with diamond pattern by means of six triangles which radiate from rosette, forming sunburst/or flower-like pattern.
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