Glass hexagonal bottle
Unknown Artist
Translucent blue green.
Thick rim, folded out, round, and in; tall cylindrical neck; sloping, slightly convex shoulder; squat body with hexagonal sides; low base with flat bottom.
Decoration in relief in three registers: on shoulder, six arches, each containing an unidentified domed object; on body, six square panels, divided by columns with capitals and bases, each containing an object: 1, a footed bowl; 2, a pine cone; 3, a footed jar with rounded objects (fruit ?) emerging from its rim; 4, (missing); 5, another pine cone; 6, a handled vase with conical lid; below, continuous band of twenty-two radiating upturned tongues; on bottom, raised broad circle around edge and dot at center.
Broken and repaired, with several large holes in shoulder and body; pinprick bubbles; slight dulling and faint iridescence, with patches of encrusted thick creamy brown weathering.
Made in the same mold as 17.194.229.
Credit: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917