Glass jug with snake-thread decoration

Roman, Rhenish

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

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.

Glass jug with snake-thread decoration, Glass, Roman, Rhenish

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