Glass jug
Colorless with bluish tinge; handle in same color.
Rim folded round and in and pressed flat into broad, flaring mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; narrow horizontal shoulder; cylindrical body with side tapering slightly downwards; pushed-in bottom with circular pontil scar; handle applied in a large pad to shoulder, drawn up and outwards, then turned in and folded on to underside of mouth and edge of rim with projecting trail above.
Body decorated with thirty-one regular vertical ribs.
Broken and repaired, but complete; pinprick and elongated bubbles; pitting and brilliant iridescent weathering.
Rim folded round and in and pressed flat into broad, flaring mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; narrow horizontal shoulder; cylindrical body with side tapering slightly downwards; pushed-in bottom with circular pontil scar; handle applied in a large pad to shoulder, drawn up and outwards, then turned in and folded on to underside of mouth and edge of rim with projecting trail above.
Body decorated with thirty-one regular vertical ribs.
Broken and repaired, but complete; pinprick and elongated bubbles; pitting and brilliant iridescent weathering.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass jug
- Period: Late Imperial
- Date: 4th–5th century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown in a dip mold
- Dimensions: H.: 4 1/2 x 1 3/4 x 1 3/4 in. (11.4 x 4.4 x 4.4 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Bequest of Mary Anna Palmer Draper, 1915
- Object Number: 15.43.239
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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