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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DescriptionMedium thin glass. Fabric of chips full of bubbles. Transparent to translucent dark manganese colored glass. Bicolored handles of similar color and translucent decolored glass with yellowish gray tinge. Opaque white and opaque dark yellowish orange (10 YR 6/6) chips. Free-blown. No pontil mark. Colored chips picked up, blown out with vessel, and melted completely into surface. Tips of handles drawn out thin and folded back. Flaring rim, folded outward, upward, and inward. Tall cylindrical neck with curved transition to shoulder. Ovoid body. Base flattened with depression in center; open, pushed-in tubular base ring. Two coil handles from shoulder to rim. Medium-sized flecks on base, body, and neck (approximately 0.5 cm in diameter) elongated on neck and shoulder. CLASSIFICATION 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.