Piriform Jug on Base Ring
Piriform Jug on Base Ring
Artist
Unidentified
Period
Roman Empire
(Ancient Roman, 27 BCE-395 CE)
Place of OriginRoman Levant
Date4th century CE
Dimensions5 7/8 × 2 5/16 × 1 7/16 × 1 1/2 in. (14.9 × 5.9 × 3.7 × 3.8 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1908.61
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass of good quality. Concentrations of small vertically elongated bubbles. Blowing spirals.
Free-blown and tooled. No pontil mark. Excess glass at lower tip of handle folded upward and backward against top of trail.
Circular mouth; unworked rim with slight bulge below. Concave funnel neck with gradual curved transition to shoulder. Strongly sloped shoulder. Piriform body. Base with triple spiral coil. Angular plain coil wishbone handle applied to center of neck and attached to center of body, continuing as a corrugated trail over first spiral of base coil. Decorative domed rectangle on trail ca. 1.0 cm below handle. Pinched diagonal projection forms a thumbrest.
Jug Class IA3c with coil handle IAC2bc
Translucent dark royal blue (not in rock color chart). Similarly colored handle and coil.
Published ReferencesLabino, Dominick, Visual Art in Glass, Dubuque, Iowa, 1968, p. 24 repr.
The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, p. 31 repr.
Fourth century
Second half of fourth to early fifth century
Late 4th-5th century CE
2nd-4th century CE
Fourth century CE
Probably fourth century
Sixth to early seventh century
Probably fourth or early fifth century
Late fourth to late fifth century
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