Glass spouted jug

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Translucent deep blue green; handle in same color.
Oval, outsplayed rim with vertical, rounded and thickened lip; upward-projecting spout at front and indents in sides below; neck expands downwards; globular body; thick, tubular, base ring; pushed-in bottom with pontil scar; three-ribbed handle applied to upper body, drawn up and outwards, then turned in horizontally and pressed onto top of back of rim with small, flattened, projecting thumb rest.
Intact; many bubbles, blowing striations, and a few glassy inclusions; dulling, and patches of brownish weathering and iridescence.

With pointed mouth and globular body; greenish.

Glass spouted jug, Glass, Roman

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