Inverted Piriform Jug with Spouted Mouth on Base Ring
Inverted Piriform Jug with Spouted Mouth on Base Ring
Place of OriginAncient Rome, probably Syria or Palestine
DateProbably fourth century
DimensionsH: 3 1/2 in. (8.8 cm); Rim Diam: 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm); Body Diam: 1 9/16 in. (4.0 cm); Base Diam: 1 3/8 in. (3.6 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown and tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1006
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. Numerous pinprick bubbles.
Transparent natural pale olive (10 Y 6/2). Translucent dark blue coils and handle.
Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.5 cm in diameter. Added coils. Excess glass at tip of handle folded outward and inward to form a closed loop, then incompletely clipped (one trail folded backward on top of handle).
Spouted mouth; rim rounded in flame. Tall cylindrical neck with slight bulge above constriction at base. Nearly horizontal shoulder. Inverted piriform body. Domed base with pushed-in hollow tubular base ring. Curved plain coil handle applied to shoulder and attached to upper top of rim where it was folded outward, downward and inward to form a horizontal closed loop.
Carefully added rim coil; neck coil with buckle from left to right.
CLASSIFICATION: Jug Class IIB2a with coil handle IA2a.
Probably fourth or sixth century
Second half of fourth century
Probably fourth or fifth century
Second half of fourth century
Probably mid-fourth to early fifth century
First half of fourth century
Probably fourth century
Probably end of third to mid-fourth century
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