Glass jug with snake-thread decoration
Colorless with pale green tinge; handle in same glass; trails in translucent light blue and opaque yellow.
Funnel-shaped neck; broad, sloping shoulder; convex curving side, tapering downwards; outsplayed tubular base ring, made by folding; kick in bottom with central pontil scar; strap handle applied to shoulder, drawn up and outward in a gentle curve, then folded in, down, and back, and trailed onto top of rim.
On body, two blue and two yellow partially serrated snake-thread trails in an alternating pattern of similar abstract curvilinear designs; on upper part of handle, a short yellow trail, tooled into horizontal ribs.
Broken and repaired, with all of rim and most of neck missing, and several large holes in body; few bubbles, but many elongated bubbles and a few black impurities in handle; dulling, faint iridescence, and patches of brownish weathering.
Funnel-shaped neck; broad, sloping shoulder; convex curving side, tapering downwards; outsplayed tubular base ring, made by folding; kick in bottom with central pontil scar; strap handle applied to shoulder, drawn up and outward in a gentle curve, then folded in, down, and back, and trailed onto top of rim.
On body, two blue and two yellow partially serrated snake-thread trails in an alternating pattern of similar abstract curvilinear designs; on upper part of handle, a short yellow trail, tooled into horizontal ribs.
Broken and repaired, with all of rim and most of neck missing, and several large holes in body; few bubbles, but many elongated bubbles and a few black impurities in handle; dulling, faint iridescence, and patches of brownish weathering.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass jug with snake-thread decoration
- Period: Mid Imperial
- Date: late 2nd–3rd century CE
- Culture: Roman, Rhenish
- Medium: Glass; blown and trailed
- Dimensions: H. with handle 5 3/8 in. (13.6 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Fletcher Fund, 1959
- Object Number: 59.11.12
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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