Glass jar
Colorless with pale blue green tinge.
Uneven horizontal rim, with rounded tubular edge, folded out, down, and in, forming collar around neck; ovoid body; concave bottom.
Intact, but internal cracks around rim; large and pinprick bubbles, with yellow green impurity streak in rim; some dulling, slight pitting and iridescent weathering, but much of exterior and interior covered with thick limy encrustation and creamy brown weathering.
Uneven horizontal rim, with rounded tubular edge, folded out, down, and in, forming collar around neck; ovoid body; concave bottom.
Intact, but internal cracks around rim; large and pinprick bubbles, with yellow green impurity streak in rim; some dulling, slight pitting and iridescent weathering, but much of exterior and interior covered with thick limy encrustation and creamy brown weathering.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass jar
- Period: Early Imperial
- Date: mid-1st–2nd century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown
- Dimensions: H.: 4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881
- Object Number: 81.10.19
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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