Glass jug
Colorless with pale blue green tinge; handle in same color.
Rim folded out, down, up, and out, forming a downward flange and stepped profile; short cylindrical neck with faint horizontal tooling marks around base; piriform body, with slight horizontal bulge at point of greatest diameter; low integral foot ring, concave bottom; rod handle attached to top of body with long tail extending down side and pinched to form nine semicircular projections, drawn up, out, and round in a curve, and trailed on to top of neck and outer edge of rim with vertical, flat thumb-rest.
Intact; few bubbles; dulling, iridescence, and thick creamy brown weathering, with small areas of soil encrustation. Inside bottle, numerous solidified lumps of earth.
Rim folded out, down, up, and out, forming a downward flange and stepped profile; short cylindrical neck with faint horizontal tooling marks around base; piriform body, with slight horizontal bulge at point of greatest diameter; low integral foot ring, concave bottom; rod handle attached to top of body with long tail extending down side and pinched to form nine semicircular projections, drawn up, out, and round in a curve, and trailed on to top of neck and outer edge of rim with vertical, flat thumb-rest.
Intact; few bubbles; dulling, iridescence, and thick creamy brown weathering, with small areas of soil encrustation. Inside bottle, numerous solidified lumps of earth.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass jug
- Period: Early Imperial
- Date: mid-1st century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown and tooled
- Dimensions: Height: 6 in. (15.2 cm)
Diameter: 2 15/16 in. (7.5 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
- Object Number: 91.1.1266
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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