Glass jug with trefoil rim

Roman

Not on view

Translucent pale blue-green; handle and trail in same color.

Trefoil rim with partially tubular lip, folded over and in; oval neck; globular body; pushed-in bottom, with small off-center kick and trace of pontil mark; two-ribbed strap handle applied as a large pad to upper body, drawn up and outward, then turned in at an acute angle, attached to the back of the top of the neck and drawn up outside of rim to edge, with a flattened thumb rest projecting outward above.

Trail applied as a large pad to neck, then wound round in an even, widely-spaced spiral down neck and across body, ending on the bottom.

Intact; many pinprick and larger bubbles; dulling, faint iridescence, and patches of creamy weathering.

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