Oval Jug with Spouted Mouth

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Syria or Palestine

DateProbably 6th century

DimensionsH: 5 1/16 in. (12.8 cm); Rim Diam: 2 in. (5.15 cm)

MediumGlass, expanded mold blown; tooled; applied handle

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1342

Not on View

DescriptionMedium thin glass. A fair number of small spherical and vertically elongated bubbles. A few small sandy impurities. Dark yellow body and handle; trefoil tooled lip; handle (with thumbrest) extends from lip to shoulder; ovoid body; body decorated with mold blown pattern of small circular indentations. Transparent dark yellow. Similarly colored coil handle. Body blown into a one-piece patterned mold then expanded. Neck and mouth free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.3 cm in diameter. Spouted mouth; rim folded outward, upward, and inward. Cylindrical neck with smooth transition to shoulder. Strongly sloped shoulder, ovoid body. Concave base with tooled kick CHECK. Curved hollow handle, nearly square in cross section, applied to shoulder and attached to top of rim where it was folded upward and pinched to form a flat thumbrest projecting diagonally above the rim. On body, an expanded mold-blown design of 12 horizontal rows of sunken dots. CLASSIFICATION II C 1 b with handle IV A 1 a