Bulbous Jar with Zigzag Neck Coil

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Bulbous Jar with Zigzag Neck Coil

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine

DateFourth century

DimensionsH: 2 11/16 in. (6.9 cm); Rim Diam: 2 3/8 in. (6 cm); Diam (body): 2 7/8 in. (7.2 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown; tooled; applied decoration

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1017

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. A few pinprick bubbles. Purple body, pale green applied decoration; flared, folded rim; constricted neck; green thread applied in zig-zag pattern from rim to shoulder; flattened spherical body. Transparent manganese colored slightly streaky grayish red (near 10 R 4/2). Translucent natural grayish yellow green zigzag coil (between 5 GY 7/2 and 5 GY 5/2). Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.3 cm in diameter. Added coil. Excess glass at end of zigzag drawn out thin and snapped off. Hollow rim, widely outsplayed and folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. Deeply concave neck with curved transition to shoulder. Gently sloping shoulder. Squat bulbous body with greatest diameter at midpoint. Base flattened with depression in center. Freestanding zigzag coil applied to shoulder and attached to rim, trailed on from left to right with 16 segments between shoulder and rim. Coil starts thin and ends thick. CLASSIFICATION Jar Class I B 1 a