Glass jug
Translucent pale blue green, with same color handle.
Everted rim, folded down, round, and in; flaring mouth; tall neck expanding downwards; sloping, slightly convex shoulder; squat body with hexagonal sides; low base with flat bottom; bifurcated handle attached to shoulder, drawn up and out in a curve, then turned in horizontally and trailed on to edge of rim and top of neck in several folds.
Decoration in relief in three registers: on shoulder, six arches, each containing an unidentified domed object; on body, six square panels, divided by columns with capitals and bases, each containing an object: 1, a footed bowl; 2, a pine cone; 3, a footed jar with rounded objects (fruit ?) emerging from its rim; 4, a footed jug with long S-shaped handle; 5, another pine cone; 6, a handled vase with conical lid; below, continuous band of twenty-two radiating upturned tongues; on bottom, raised broad circle around edge and dot at center.
Broken, with most of rim and part of neck missing, cracks in shoulder, and small hole in panel 4; pinprick bubbles; slight dulling and faint iridescence, with patches of creamy brown weathering and encrustation.
Made in the same mold as 17.194.230.
Everted rim, folded down, round, and in; flaring mouth; tall neck expanding downwards; sloping, slightly convex shoulder; squat body with hexagonal sides; low base with flat bottom; bifurcated handle attached to shoulder, drawn up and out in a curve, then turned in horizontally and trailed on to edge of rim and top of neck in several folds.
Decoration in relief in three registers: on shoulder, six arches, each containing an unidentified domed object; on body, six square panels, divided by columns with capitals and bases, each containing an object: 1, a footed bowl; 2, a pine cone; 3, a footed jar with rounded objects (fruit ?) emerging from its rim; 4, a footed jug with long S-shaped handle; 5, another pine cone; 6, a handled vase with conical lid; below, continuous band of twenty-two radiating upturned tongues; on bottom, raised broad circle around edge and dot at center.
Broken, with most of rim and part of neck missing, cracks in shoulder, and small hole in panel 4; pinprick bubbles; slight dulling and faint iridescence, with patches of creamy brown weathering and encrustation.
Made in the same mold as 17.194.230.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass jug
- Period: Early Imperial, Julio-Claudian
- Date: 1st half of 1st century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; mold-blown
- Dimensions: H.: 3 3/4 x 2 1/2 x 1 1/8 in. (9.5 x 6.4 x 2.9 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.229
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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