<em>Bottle with Two Handles</em>, 1st century C.E. Glass, 7 1/2 × Diam. 4 1/4 in. (19.1 × 10.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Museum Collection, X1066. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.X1066_view1.jpg)

Bottle with Two Handles, 1st century C.E. Glass, 7 1/2 × Diam. 4 1/4 in. (19.1 × 10.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Museum Collection, X1066. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.X1066_view1.jpg)

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How did they make glass in the 1st century CE with such beautiful flowing shapes?

This glass bottle is an early example of glass blowing, which was invented during this time in the Syrio-palestinian region and quickly was taken up by Roman glass makers.

Compare it to the small vessels nearby with the yellow zig-zags, which were core-made, for instance. Core-made vessels, an earlier invention, were formed around a solid core of clay that could be scraped out when the vessel was completed.

Bottle with Two Handles

Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

MEDIUM Glass

GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS

Possible place made: Italy
Possible place made: Eastern Mediterranean

DATES 1st century C.E.

PERIOD early Roman Period

DIMENSIONS 7 1/2 × Diam. 4 1/4 in. (19.1 × 10.8 cm) (show scale)

COLLECTIONS Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

ACCESSION NUMBER X1066

CREDIT LINE Brooklyn Museum Collection

CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Cobalt blue with white blobs.

EXHIBITIONS

Infinite Blue

MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view

CAPTION Bottle with Two Handles, 1st century C.E. Glass, 7 1/2 × Diam. 4 1/4 in. (19.1 × 10.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Museum Collection, X1066. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.X1066_view1.jpg)

IMAGE overall, CUR.X1066_view1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2009

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Download our app and ask your own questions during your visit. Here are some that others have asked.

How did they make glass in the 1st century CE with such beautiful flowing shapes?

This glass bottle is an early example of glass blowing, which was invented during this time in the Syrio-palestinian region and quickly was taken up by Roman glass makers.

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Bottle with Two Handles

Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

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