**ANTIQUE GLASS BOTTLES

Antique Glass Bottles  From The Allaire Collection

The earliest glass bottles were produced in Egypt, Syria, Greece and Cyprus as early as 1500 BC using the core forming techniques. Around 50 BC, probably in Syria, the discovery of the blowpipe and the technique of glass blowing made the blown bottle possible. The following examples from the Allaire Collection of Glass illustrate various examples from 6 BC to 1850. Absent from these examples are American glass bottles which we will save for a later blog. Click on the photo to enlarge. Read the write-up for each glass bottle by looking up the number in the search bar on the right (page side) down below.

103E Flask with pinched center, Mid 18th Century 14.5 cm

62E Spanish Bottle first half of 17th Century

47A German bottle 1810-1870 12.7 cm

25E Venetian Pilgrim Flask Mid 18th C 18.4 cm

55R Four-side Byzantine Jar or bottle 7-8th Century

52R Roman bottle with spectacle decoration 4th Century

49R Late Roman bottle with spectacle decoration 5-6th C

11R Late Roman bottle with neck ruffle 5-6th Century

46R Roman tall-neck bottle 2-3rd Century 19.7 cm

32R Roman candlestick balsamarium 2-3rd Century 18.5 cm

15R Roman spool-shaped unguentarium 2-3rd Century 7.7 cm Allaire Collection

10R Roman wheel-cut flask 2-3rd Century

4R Roman cylindrical bottle 3rd Century 9.8 cm

54R Roman marbled blue bottle 1st Century 5.6 cm Allaire Collection

21R Roman amber bottle 1st Century 11.5 cm

17R Roman blue bottle 1st Century

26R Core-formed alabastron 6th-4th BC Allaire collection

12A Dark amber swirl bottle 1800-1820 of Allaire Collection