Glass jar with marvered trails
Translucent purple; trails in opaque brownish red and white.
Thick, outsplayed rim, with slightly beveled edge; funnel-shaped neck; pushed-in shoulder; globular body; kick in bottom, with traces of pontil pad.
Two marvered trails wound in a spiral from rim to bottom; on body and neck, tooled into hanging festoons with seventeen upward tooling strokes; around bottom, tooled downward, forming a very confused pattern.
Intact; pinprick bubbles on surface; thick creamy brown weathering and iridescence covering most of body with areas of pitting and dulling on exterior.
Thick, outsplayed rim, with slightly beveled edge; funnel-shaped neck; pushed-in shoulder; globular body; kick in bottom, with traces of pontil pad.
Two marvered trails wound in a spiral from rim to bottom; on body and neck, tooled into hanging festoons with seventeen upward tooling strokes; around bottom, tooled downward, forming a very confused pattern.
Intact; pinprick bubbles on surface; thick creamy brown weathering and iridescence covering most of body with areas of pitting and dulling on exterior.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass jar with marvered trails
- Period: Late Roman, Early Byzantine, or Islamic
- Date: 5th century CE or later
- Culture: Roman, Syro-Palestinian
- Medium: Glass; blown and trailed
- Dimensions: H.: 3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935
- Object Number: 37.128.8
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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