Description:
Square mold blown bottle, rounded at the shoulder with elongated neck and rolled rim flaring from neck. Handle with 5 ribs secured at shoulder and below roll of rim. Body opposite handle carries small depression at base. Rim slightly angled away from handle (imperfection). The base carries no markings and is slightly concave.
Label Text:
Glass containers have been used for millennia to hold beverages, oils, perfumes, and more. The transparency of glass allows for better visibility of a vessel’s contents, but glass is also more breakable than other materials. The key to transporting fragile glass is how it is packed. When placing multiple glass containers in a wooden crate or case for shipping or travel, the practicality of a rectangular form is obvious. These two bottles (displayed with SK 2006.645.INV) were hand blown using rigid molds to form the straight walls. It is a design that works—from the 3rd century to the 18th, these “case bottles” were widely produced.
-Aaron Miller, Associate Curator of Visual and Material Culture, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum (Jan. 2017)
Tags:
ancient; archaeology Link to share this object record:
https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=MH+2006.23.1 |
