Spouted Jug (Guttrolf)

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Spouted Jug (Guttrolf)

Place of OriginAncient Rome, probably northwestern Europe

DateEarly medieval or later

DimensionsH: 7 7/16 in. (18.9 cm); Max Body Diam: 2 3/4 in. (7.0 cm)

MediumBlown and tooled glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1979.9

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. Good quality. Small vertically elongated bubbles. Transparent clear dusky yellow green (near 5 GY 5/2). Similarly colored handle. Free blown and intentionally collapsed. Pontil mark ca. 1.0 cm in diameter. Excess glass at tip of handle folded backward on top of handle and pinched to form a flat triangular tail. Spouted mouth; rim folded outward, upward, and inward. Tall tapering neck divided in the lower part into five narrow tubes, four on the exterior and one interior, connected by thin flat segments. Squat piriform body. Concave base. Curved hollow handle applied to center of neck, at junction between upper and lower part, and attached to the rim where it was pinched flat.

Published References"Current Exhibitions," Archaeology, vol. 33, no. 1, Jan-Feb 1980, p. 4, no. 2, Mar-Apr 1980, p. 2.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Art for Collectors, November 12 - December 17, 1978, no. 23f.