Jar with Base Ring, Two Handles and 'Splashed' Decoration

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Jar with Base Ring, Two Handles and 'Splashed' Decoration

Place of OriginRoman Empire

Date1st century CE

DimensionsH: 4 1/16 in. (10.4 cm); Rim Diam: 1 1/8 in. (2.9 cm); Body Diam: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm); Base Diam: 1 9/16 in. (4.0 cm)

MediumFree blown, colored chips marvered on, then blown again, handles applied and lip tooled

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1496

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DescriptionThis small jar with base ring and two handles was free-blown using medium thin glass and decorated with colored chips that were picked up, blown out with the vessel, and fully melted into the surface. The fabric of the chips is full of bubbles. The transparent to translucent dark manganese-colored glass includes bicolored handles made from similar glass and translucent decolored glass with a yellowish gray tinge. Opaque white and opaque dark yellowish orange (10 YR 6/6) chips create a splashed effect. The rim is flaring and folded outward, upward, and inward. The tall cylindrical neck curves into an ovoid body with a flattened base and an open, pushed-in tubular base ring. Two coil handles extend from shoulder to rim. The tips of the handles are drawn out thin and folded back. Medium-sized flecks, each approximately 0.5 centimeters in diameter, appear on the base, body, and neck and are elongated on the neck and shoulder. The jar is classified as Isings 1957, Form 15.

Published ReferencesAuth, Susan H., Ancient Glass at the Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, 1976, p. 60 as a parallel to her no. 55 (pale yellow- green with opaque white, yellow, and pale blue flecks) which is a variation of Isings 15.

Grose, David, "Ancient Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vo. 20, no. 3, 1978, p. 78, fig. 14.

Grose, David, "The Formation of the Roman Glass Industry," Archaeology, vol. 36, no. 4, July/Aug., 1983, repr. (col.) p. 38.

Grose, David F., "Innovation and change in ancient technologies: The anomalous case of the Roman glass industry," in High-technology Ceramics, Westerville, OH, 1986, p. 77, fig. 16.