Glass jar
Everted rim with beveled lip; funnel-shaped neck with irregular tooling marks in side; narrow, horizontal shoulder with projecting bulge around edge; bulbous body; pushed-in bottom with circular pontil mark at center.
Body decorated with 22 vertical ribs, extending from bulge around top of body to bottom, made by dipping the paraison into a mold, then withdrawing it, and inflating.
Intact; some pinprick and large bubbles, with a few glassy and black inclusions; patches of faint dulling and iridescent weathering.
The extreme clarity and good state of preservation of the glass is unusual but is not totally unknown among Roman glass vessels.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass jar
- Period: Late Imperial
- Date: 3rd–4th century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown in a dip mold
- Dimensions: H.: 4 7/16 in. (11.2 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of Mr. Norman Jacobson, 1983
- Object Number: 1983.571.11
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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