Polychrome glass flask with spiral coil
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This unusual flask was made of several colors of glass rolled together: maroon, pale green, gray, milky white, and others. The material is thick, and appears to have been worked in a fairly viscous state. The bottom is mostly flat, with a large pontil scar. The pyriform body leads without transition to a slender straight neck, and then a flaring mouth with an everted rim. Coils of glass wrapping around the body and neck of glassware have been the object of multiple interpretations, with some viewing them as symbolic representations of snakes, and others as merely the natural development of motions inherent to the craft. We have not been able to determine with any level of confidence the origin or dating of this flask. Stern (2001:266) indicates that thick spiral trails around the neck were relatively common in the Rhineland and Cologne in late third and fourth century graves, and that this style only spread later to the Eastern Mediterranean. Bibliography (for this item)Stern, E. Marianne2001 Roman, Byzantine, and Early Medieval Glass; 10 BCE-700 CE; Ernesto Wolf Collection. Hatje Cantz Publishers, Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany. |
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