Glass footed jar

Roman, Palestinian

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Translucent purple; feet in same color; handle trails in translucent pale green.
Rounded rim, folded over and in; flaring oval mouth; slanting cylindrical neck; sloping shoulder, pushed-in on one side; curving side to body, tapering downwards; small, slightly flattened bottom; three solid rod feet applied as squared pads around bottom; nine trails applied as rod handles attached to top of body as pads, drawn up and slightly outwards, then turned in and trailed onto edge and top of rim.
Complete, but cracks running through body; pinprick bubbles; heavily pitted and weathered on one side of exterior with brilliant iridescence, soil encrustation and weathering on interior.

With nine handles and three feet.

Glass footed jar, Glass, Roman, Palestinian

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