Spherical Jug with Spouted Mouth

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Spherical Jug with Spouted Mouth

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Syria or Palestine

DateProbably early fourth century

DimensionsH: 4 9/16 in. (11.6 cm); Rim Diam: 2 3/16 in. (5.5 cm); Body Diam: 2 3/4 in. (7 cm)

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

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1070

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DescriptionThin glass. Good quality. A few pinprick bubbles in body and horizontally elongated bubbles in rim. Blowing spirals. Transparent manganese-colored pale red (5 R 6/2). Translucent similarly colored handle appearing grayish-red (10 R 4/2). Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 0.9 cm in diameter. Applied ribs. Excess glass at tip of handle drawn to the side and cut off. Flat toolmark on the top of the handle corresponding to flat toolmark on interior. Spouted mouth; rim rounded and thickened in flame. Tapering neck with curved transition to shoulder. Strongly sloped shoulder. Spherical body. Base flattened with depression in center. Straight plain coil handle applied to shoulder and attached to rim where it was pressed down to form a closed loop against the underside of the mouth, and then flattened horizontally. On body, five ribs beginning at base where they are thick and gradually melted into surface toward shoulder. CLASSIFICATION: Jug Class IB1a with coil handle IA2a.

Published ReferencesAuth, Susan H., Ancient Glass at the Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, 1976, no. 126, p. 109.