Squat Bulbous Jug with Spouted Mouth
Squat Bulbous Jug with Spouted Mouth
Artist
Unidentified
Period
Roman Empire
(Ancient Roman, 27 BCE-395 CE)
Place of Originpossibly from Hauran, Roman Syria
Date2nd-4th century CE
Dimensions3 1/4 × 2 3/16 × 1 7/8 in. (8.3 × 5.6 × 4.7 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1908.70
Not on View
DescriptionThis squat bulbous jug (Jug Class IB1a with coil handle IA2d) is made from medium thin glass, featuring numerous pinprick and small spherical bubbles, and a few large ones in the neck and mouth. A single black speck appears in the handle, and blowing spirals are visible. The vessel is transparent natural pale green (10 G 6/2) with a similarly colored translucent handle.
It was free-blown and tooled, with no pontil mark, and the excess glass at the handle tip was clipped off. The jug has a spouted funnel mouth with a rim rounded and thickened in flame, a short tapering neck that transitions smoothly into a squat bulbous body with its greatest diameter at the midpoint, and a concave base with a tooled kick. A curved plain coil handle is applied from the shoulder to the rim. The body displays three shallow, irregularly placed circular indentations—two flanking the handle and one opposite it.
Probably early fourth century
Probably fourth century
Probably fourth or sixth century
Probably fourth century
Sixth century?
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Probably second half of fourth to early fifth century
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