About this artwork
Shortly after glassblowing was invented in the Eastern Mediterranean in the first century BCE, enterprising
glassmakers created a shaping technique known as moldblowing, in which they inflated a bubble of molten glass within a mold. This process enabled rapid production and promoted the development of new vessel shapes and sizes.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium
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Culture
- Ancient Roman
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Title
- Bottle
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Place
- Roman Empire (Object made in)
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Date
- 1 CE–100 CE
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Medium
- Glass, mold-blown
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Dimensions
- 7.8 × 5.6 × 2.9 cm (3 1/8 × 2 1/4 × 1 1/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Theodore W. and Frances S. Robinson
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Reference Number
- 1943.1172
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/49057/manifest.json