Glass one-handled jug

Roman

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Translucent cobalt blue; handle and trail in opaque white.
Thick, slightly tubular rim, folded out, round, and in, forming collar around inside of mouth; cylindrical neck; sloping shoulder; bulbous body with side tapering downward; pushed-in body, with central pontil scar; rod handle applied as a large pad to upper side, drawn up in a gentle curve, and trailed onto top of neck and underside of rim, and pinched off just above rim.
Single trail applied in relief to shoulder, wound around once horizontally, then in a spiral nine and a half times down body, ending as a marvered trail around edge of bottom; four deep indents in body.
Intact; pinprick bubbles in body, elongated in handle; pitting, pitting, and areas of creamy brown weathering and iridescence.

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