Glass jug with chain handle
Translucent pale blue green; trails, handle, and foot ring in same color.
Outsplayed and rounded rim; funnel-shaped neck; tall, conical body; broad, almost flat bottom with central high kick and trace of pontil mark, surrounded by splayed foot ring; chain handle consists of two trails applied to side in thick oval pads, drawn up and out, pinched together five times to form a vertical row of elongated horizontal loops, then trails continue as a single strap-like attachment with hollow loop above and folds below, pressed on to neck over trail decoration.
Thick horizontal trail applied to neck below rim; a thin trail wound more than once around neck just above junction with body; on body, decoration of fifteen fine spiral ribs, formed in a dip mold, extending from neck to edge of bottom.
Broken and repaired, with losses to rim, neck, lower body and outer bottom, and part of one handle loop; few bubbles; dulling, limy encrustation and weathering, and iridescence.
Outsplayed and rounded rim; funnel-shaped neck; tall, conical body; broad, almost flat bottom with central high kick and trace of pontil mark, surrounded by splayed foot ring; chain handle consists of two trails applied to side in thick oval pads, drawn up and out, pinched together five times to form a vertical row of elongated horizontal loops, then trails continue as a single strap-like attachment with hollow loop above and folds below, pressed on to neck over trail decoration.
Thick horizontal trail applied to neck below rim; a thin trail wound more than once around neck just above junction with body; on body, decoration of fifteen fine spiral ribs, formed in a dip mold, extending from neck to edge of bottom.
Broken and repaired, with losses to rim, neck, lower body and outer bottom, and part of one handle loop; few bubbles; dulling, limy encrustation and weathering, and iridescence.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass jug with chain handle
- Period: Late Imperial
- Date: 3rd–early 4th century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; dip-molded and reinflated, trailed, and tooled
- Dimensions: H.: 7 in. (17.8 cm)
Diam.: 3 x 5 1/4 x 2 1/8 in. (7.6 x 13.3 x 5.4 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881
- Object Number: 81.10.175
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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