Glass spouted jug

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Translucent deep blue green; handle and trail in same color.
Oval, outsplayed rim with vertical, rounded and thickened lip; upward-projecting spout at front and indents in sides below; neck expands downwards; globular body; flat bottom; strap handle applied to top of body over trail decoration, drawn up and outwards in a curve, then turned in and pressed onto back of rim with small, flattened, projecting thumb rest.
Single trail applied to top of body and wound down in a spiral of 9½ turns, ending around bottom.
Intact; very many bubbles and blowing striations; slight dulling and patches of brownish weathering and iridescence.

With thread running from neck to foot.

Glass spouted jug, Glass, Roman

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