Glass jug
Colorless with light green tinge; same color handle and trails.
Plain, rounded rim; flaring mouth; short cylindrical neck, expanding downwards and joining imperceptibly with biconical body; outsplayed tubular foot rim, made by folding; deep kick in bottom, with large jagged pontil scar; four-ribbed strap handle, applied to body just above greatest diameter, with claws extending downwards, the two outer ones being larger and each tooled to have a pinched, horizontal projection; handle drawn out and up, curved in, and folded onto underside of mouth and edge of rim, with one hollow roll, on top of trail.
A thicker trail wound slightly more than once around underside of mouth; another thinner trail wound six times in a spiral around neck.
Body intact, but top of handle broken and repaired below hollow roll (with alien piece of glass); bubbles and blowing striations; some soil encrustation, especially around neck, slight dulling, whitish weathering, and brilliant iridescence.
Plain, rounded rim; flaring mouth; short cylindrical neck, expanding downwards and joining imperceptibly with biconical body; outsplayed tubular foot rim, made by folding; deep kick in bottom, with large jagged pontil scar; four-ribbed strap handle, applied to body just above greatest diameter, with claws extending downwards, the two outer ones being larger and each tooled to have a pinched, horizontal projection; handle drawn out and up, curved in, and folded onto underside of mouth and edge of rim, with one hollow roll, on top of trail.
A thicker trail wound slightly more than once around underside of mouth; another thinner trail wound six times in a spiral around neck.
Body intact, but top of handle broken and repaired below hollow roll (with alien piece of glass); bubbles and blowing striations; some soil encrustation, especially around neck, slight dulling, whitish weathering, and brilliant iridescence.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass jug
- Period: Late Imperial
- Date: 3rd–4th century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown, trailed, and tooled
- Dimensions: H.: 7 in. (17.8 cm)
Diam.: 1 3/4 x 3 1/8 x 2 1/16 in. (4.4 x 7.9 x 5.2 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881
- Object Number: 81.10.170
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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