Glass jug
Translucent pale blue green; handle in same color but with olive green streaks.
Rim folded out, down, over, and in, and pressed flat on top surface; oval mouth; cylindrical neck with tooling marks around base; large piriform body; pushed-in bottom; curving handle with ribs at sides, attached to top of body with downward fins, drawn up and out, turned in horizontally and trailed on to top of neck and rim, with folded thumb rest above.
Complete but several internal cracks in rim and body; pinprick and larger bubbles with some white gritty impurities in body, and many black streaky impurities in handle; faint iridescence and weathering, with one patch of brownish weathering on interior.
Bluish pear-shaped blown glass vase with curving handle.
Rim folded out, down, over, and in, and pressed flat on top surface; oval mouth; cylindrical neck with tooling marks around base; large piriform body; pushed-in bottom; curving handle with ribs at sides, attached to top of body with downward fins, drawn up and out, turned in horizontally and trailed on to top of neck and rim, with folded thumb rest above.
Complete but several internal cracks in rim and body; pinprick and larger bubbles with some white gritty impurities in body, and many black streaky impurities in handle; faint iridescence and weathering, with one patch of brownish weathering on interior.
Bluish pear-shaped blown glass vase with curving handle.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass jug
- Period: Mid Imperial
- Date: 2nd–3rd century CE
- Culture: Roman, Cypriot
- Medium: Glass; blown
- Dimensions: 6 5/8 in. (16.9 cm)
Other: 3 15/16 in. (10 cm)
Diam. of rim: 1 11/16 in. (4.3 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
- Object Number: 74.51.115
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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