Cylindrical Jug with Trefoil Mouth on Base Ring

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date4th-5th century CE

DimensionsH: 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm); Diam (rim): 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm); Diam (body): 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm); Diam (base): 1 7/8 in. (4.7 cm)

MediumGlass; mold blown, removed, free blown, tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1206

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. Numerous medium-sized bubbles. Transparent glass with natural green tint. Translucent similarly colored handles and coil. Exact color cannot be determined because of weathering. Body and base blown into a one-part vertically ribbed and grooved conical mold. Neck and mouth free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.3 cm in diameter. Added coils. Excess glass at tip of handles folded back into loop at rim. Trefoil mouth; rim rounded and thickened in flame. Tapering of neck with curved transition to shoulder. Sloping shoulder with bulge from edge of mold. Cylindrical body with slight downward taper. Concave pushed-in base with tubular base ring. Twin angular plain coil handles applied to shoulder and attached to mouth and rim where each is folded diagonally inward, upward, and inward to form a closed loop. Rim coil and neck coil from left to right. On body, 18 mold-blown vertical corrugations twisted to right at base and continuing to center on underside of base. CLASSIFICATION: II B 2 g with handles II A 2 a.