Glass jug

Roman

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Small one-handled jug
Translucent pale blue green; handle and trail in same color.
Rim folded over and in and pressed into outer edge of broad, flaring mouth; short and slender concave neck, expanding downwards to piriform body; integral tubular base ring; pushed-in bottom with central pontil mark; rod handle applied as a large, uneven pad to top of body, drawn up and out, curved in horizontally and trailed onto underside of mouth and edgeof rim, with outward projecting thumb-rest above.
Trail in 1.5 turns around neck.
Intact, except for part of trail; pinprick bubbles; pitting, dulling, and milky weathering with iridesence

Glass jug, Glass, Roman

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