Bulbous Jug on Base Ring

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Bulbous Jug on Base Ring

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Syria or Palestine

DateFirst half of fourth century

DimensionsH: 8 1/8 in. (20.7 cm); Rim Diam: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm); Body Diam: 2 13/16 in. (7.2 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown, tooled, applied handle and decoration.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.972

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. Pinprick and a few medium-sized vertically elongated bubbles. Black specks in handle and coils. Transparent streaky manganese colored pale red (5 R 6/2). Translucent pale olive handle and coils (10 Y 6/2). Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.45 cm in diameter. Added coil and ribs. Excess glass at tip of handle clipped off. Flaring circular mouth; rim rounded in flame. Tall cylindrical neck with slight taper and curved transition to shoulder. Strongly sloped shoulder. Bulbous body with greatest diameter at its midpoint and concave sides below widening out to open pushed-in base. Straight plain coil handle applied to shoulder and attached to rim where it was folded outward, downward, and backward to rim coil to form a horizontal rectangular closed loop, then pulled straight down and out again forming an open U below the first loop. Rim coil and neck coil from left to right. On body, 13 slender vertical ribs from side of base to halfway up shoulder. CLASSIFICATION: Jug Class IA2a with coil handle IA2a.