Glass jar with two handles (amphora)
Colorless with yellowish tinge; handles and trails in same color .
Everted, beveled rim; flaring mouth; broad, cylindrical neck, tapering slightly downwards; sloping shoulder; side tapering downwards; tubular, outsplayed base ring, made by folding; pushed-in bottom; two strap handles applied to top of neck, drawn out and up, then turned sharply downwards vertically, and trailed off on shoulder over trail decoration.
Irregular pattern of pairs of vertical trails, extending from neck to lower body, pinched together at intervals.
Broken and repaired, with one chip in rim and two small holes in neck; a few bubbles and glassy inclusions; slight dulling and weathering, and faint iridescence covering most of surfaces.
The decoration was applied with molten threads of glass which fused with and were partially absorbed by the body of the amphora.
Everted, beveled rim; flaring mouth; broad, cylindrical neck, tapering slightly downwards; sloping shoulder; side tapering downwards; tubular, outsplayed base ring, made by folding; pushed-in bottom; two strap handles applied to top of neck, drawn out and up, then turned sharply downwards vertically, and trailed off on shoulder over trail decoration.
Irregular pattern of pairs of vertical trails, extending from neck to lower body, pinched together at intervals.
Broken and repaired, with one chip in rim and two small holes in neck; a few bubbles and glassy inclusions; slight dulling and weathering, and faint iridescence covering most of surfaces.
The decoration was applied with molten threads of glass which fused with and were partially absorbed by the body of the amphora.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass jar with two handles (amphora)
- Period: Late Imperial
- Date: 3rd century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown, trailed, and tooled
- Dimensions: H.: 5 15/16 in. (15.1 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881
- Object Number: 81.10.171
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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