Glass amphoriskos with band of scrolls
Translucent pale streaky purple, with handles in translucent pale blue green.
Rim folded out, down, round, and in, and pressed into sides of mouth; cylindrical neck; ovoid body; low cylindrical base, with concave, oval bottom; rod handles attached in large claw pads to shoulder, drawn up, round, and in, and folded onto neck. One continuous mold seam around body and across bottom, but edges of molds not carefully aligned.
On body, frieze of twenty-six downturned contiguous flutes in raised outline on upper body and thirty upturned flutes on lower body, joined by a central band of tendril scrolls bordered above and below by a single horizontal raised line.
Intact, except for small weathered chip in one handle; bubbles in rim; dulling and slight encrustation on exterior, patches of brownish weathering and brilliant iridescence on interior.
Rim folded out, down, round, and in, and pressed into sides of mouth; cylindrical neck; ovoid body; low cylindrical base, with concave, oval bottom; rod handles attached in large claw pads to shoulder, drawn up, round, and in, and folded onto neck. One continuous mold seam around body and across bottom, but edges of molds not carefully aligned.
On body, frieze of twenty-six downturned contiguous flutes in raised outline on upper body and thirty upturned flutes on lower body, joined by a central band of tendril scrolls bordered above and below by a single horizontal raised line.
Intact, except for small weathered chip in one handle; bubbles in rim; dulling and slight encrustation on exterior, patches of brownish weathering and brilliant iridescence on interior.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass amphoriskos with band of scrolls
- Period: Early Imperial
- Date: 1st century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown in a two-part mold
- Dimensions: H. 2 3/4 in. (7 cm); diameter 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881
- Object Number: 81.10.233
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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