Glass jar

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Translucent streaky yellow green; trails in same color.
Rim folded out, round, and in; broad neck, tapering downwards; globular body; kick in bottom with pontil scar.
Trails applied to bottom and drawn up across body forming nine irregular vertical loops; another trail applied below rim and wound down in a spiral five times, ending over tops of loops.
Intact; many bubbles and some inclusions; dulling, iridescence, and slight weathering on exterior, patches of encrustation and brown weathering with iridescence on interior.

Yellow, with horizontal threads on neck and shoulder and vertical loops on body.

Glass jar, Glass, Roman

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