Colorless with yellowish tinge.
Rim folded out, round, and in, with top pressed down around mouth; tall cylindrical neck, expanding towards base with horizontal tooling around base; rounded shoulder; bell-shaped body with tooled horizontal concavity in upper side; broad, concave bottom.
Intact; pinprick and elongated bubbles; slight dulling, some pitting, and most of surfaces covered with iridescent weathering, one thick patch of soil encrustation under rim.
Credit: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881
2nd-3rd century A.D.
Glass; blown
20.0cm
81.10.104
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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