Glass jug

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

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.

Glass jug, Glass, Roman

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