Glass jar

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Small jar.
Translucent pale blue green with purple streaks; trail in same color.
Rim folded out, over, and in, and pressed into wide horizontal mouth; short, cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; almost horizontal shoulder; squat, bulbous body; shallow kick in bottom with traces of circular pontil mark.
Trail wound round from left to right in zigzag between outer edge of shoulder and rim, forming openwork collar.
Intact, but one strand of trail missing with crack in body below; many bubbles; dulling, small patches of soil encrustation and blackish weathering on exterior; encrustation and iridescent weathering on interior. Large piece of woody root trapped behind trail around neck.

Bluish round blown glass vase with zigzag glass threads from shoulder to lip.

Glass jar, Glass, Roman

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