Glass jug
Translucent pale blue green; handle and trails in translucent turquoise blue.
Plain, rounded rim; broad flaring mouth; cylindrical neck; sloping shoulder; squat globular body; pushed-in bottom with central jagged pontil mark; rod handle applied as a pad to shoulder, drawn up and outward, then turned in and downward, and trailed onto rim with upward projection.
One fine trail wound in a spiral around underside of mouth; another thicker trail in relief wound as irregular zigzag pattern around body and then in a spiral up neck.
Broken around rim and mouth with two holes to either side of handle; a few large bubbles, and pinprick bubbles in trail on body; slight pitting, creamy weathering, and iridescence; some soil encrustation on bottom of interior.
Plain, rounded rim; broad flaring mouth; cylindrical neck; sloping shoulder; squat globular body; pushed-in bottom with central jagged pontil mark; rod handle applied as a pad to shoulder, drawn up and outward, then turned in and downward, and trailed onto rim with upward projection.
One fine trail wound in a spiral around underside of mouth; another thicker trail in relief wound as irregular zigzag pattern around body and then in a spiral up neck.
Broken around rim and mouth with two holes to either side of handle; a few large bubbles, and pinprick bubbles in trail on body; slight pitting, creamy weathering, and iridescence; some soil encrustation on bottom of interior.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass jug
- Period: Late Imperial
- Date: 4th–5th century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown and trailed
- Dimensions: H.: 2 3/8 in. (6 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Bequest of Mary Anna Palmer Draper, 1915
- Object Number: 15.43.222
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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