Glass hexagonal bottle
Unknown Artist
Opaque white.
Plain rim with slight inward lip and flattened top edge; funnel-shaped neck, with pinched tooling marks at base; ovoid body; flat bottom.
On shoulder, six pointed arches, each containing a large ovoid object in high relief; on body, six rectangular panels divided by columns, each with a capital and base and each panel containing a vessel: 1. a spouted and footed jug, with high handle to right; 2. a footed bowl with two curved handles at sides and wide mouth containing indisctinct round objects (fruit?); 3. a footed, round-bodied amphora with two handles on shoulder; 4. a footed bowl with tall cylindrical neck with vertical grooves, the mouth filled with small dimpled objects (grapes?); 5. a footed jug with high handle to right; 6. a footed, round-bodied amphora with two handles on shoulder; around bottom, six fillets, each suspended from under the center of one panel to the next, enclosing alternating large and small objects (fruit?) below each column; on bottom, two raised circles and indistinct central boss.
Intact, except for small hole in shoulder; dulling, pitting of surface bubbles, and thick creamy weathering with faint iridescence.
Credit: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891