Glass jug
Translucent blue green; handle and base in same color.
Rim folded out, round and in; broad, conical mouth; cylindrical neck; slender ovoid body; broad, outsplayed, applied foot ring with irregular tooling marks on upper surface; deep concave bottom with irregular tooling marks around flat center with pontil mark; broad strap handle applied to upper body, drawn up vertically, then tooled in and attached to rim and underside of mouth, and trailed off above.
Intact; few bubbles in body but many elongated bubbles in handle; limy encrustation, faint weathering and iridescence.
Tall, one handled green jug with flaring lip; colored blown glass.
Rim folded out, round and in; broad, conical mouth; cylindrical neck; slender ovoid body; broad, outsplayed, applied foot ring with irregular tooling marks on upper surface; deep concave bottom with irregular tooling marks around flat center with pontil mark; broad strap handle applied to upper body, drawn up vertically, then tooled in and attached to rim and underside of mouth, and trailed off above.
Intact; few bubbles in body but many elongated bubbles in handle; limy encrustation, faint weathering and iridescence.
Tall, one handled green jug with flaring lip; colored blown glass.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass jug
- Period: Late Imperial
- Date: 4th century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown
- Dimensions: 10 13/16in. (27.5cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.91
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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