Glass jug

Translucent cobalt blue; handle in translucent honey brown; blobs in opaque white and yellow.
Rim folded out, round, and in; cylindrical neck, expanding slightly downwards; squat globular body; low concave bottom; three-ribbed strap handle applied to upper body, drawn up almost vertically, then turned in horizontally, and trailed onto neck and underside of rim.
Surface covered with round and elongated blobs.
Body intact, but crack and one weathered break in lower part of handle; some pinprick and elongated bubbles; slight pitting and weathering, with some soil encrustation around top of handle.

Blown vessels with applied blobs of differently colored, marvered glass were very fashionable in the Julio-Claudian and Early Flavian periods. Some examples have been found in Pompeii. The vivid patterns can be seen as an attempt by glass blowers to imitate the polychrome effects of marbled cast glass.