Bottle
Ancient Roman
1–100
- Medium
- Glass, mold-blown
- Dimensions
- 7.8 × 5.6 × 2.9 cm (3 1/8 × 2 1/4 × 1 1/8 in.)
- Genre
- bottle
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
vesselglassancient artbottleancientroman (ancient, style or period)containers
About
Shortly after glassblowing was invented in the Eastern Mediterranean in the first century BCE, enterprisingglassmakers 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.
