Glass jar with two handles
Translucent pale blue-green; handles and trails in same color.
Thick, tubular rim, folded out, over, and in, and pressed into side of mouth; short, funnel-shaped neck, curving out at base to narrow, horizontal shoulder; squat, bulbous body; pushed-in bottom, with large, thick pontil pad at center; two thick rod handles applied in large pads to top of body, drawn up and outward, then folded in horizontally, and trailed around and over top of rim, with one trailed off back down length of handle to top of trail decoration.
Trail decoration around lower two-thirds of body in two layers; the first is a zigzag with ten upward and downward points, starting at the top to right of one handle and then continuing from the base as a spiral wound five and a half times round and up the body.
Complete, except for one small loss to spiral trail, with repaired hole in body; pinprick bubbles; pitting, iridescence, and some creamy-brown weathering.
Thick, tubular rim, folded out, over, and in, and pressed into side of mouth; short, funnel-shaped neck, curving out at base to narrow, horizontal shoulder; squat, bulbous body; pushed-in bottom, with large, thick pontil pad at center; two thick rod handles applied in large pads to top of body, drawn up and outward, then folded in horizontally, and trailed around and over top of rim, with one trailed off back down length of handle to top of trail decoration.
Trail decoration around lower two-thirds of body in two layers; the first is a zigzag with ten upward and downward points, starting at the top to right of one handle and then continuing from the base as a spiral wound five and a half times round and up the body.
Complete, except for one small loss to spiral trail, with repaired hole in body; pinprick bubbles; pitting, iridescence, and some creamy-brown weathering.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass jar with two handles
- Period: Late Imperial
- Date: 4th century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown, trailed, and tooled
- Dimensions: H. (to rim): 3 7/16 in. (8.8 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of Elias Kempner, 1934
- Object Number: 34.132.37
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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