Spherical Jar with Zigzag Neck Coil

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine

DateFourth century

DimensionsH: 4 3/16 in. (10.6 cm); Rim Diam: 3 3/16 in. (8.1 cm); Body Diam: 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown, tooled, applied decoration.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1025

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DescriptionTransparent natural pale green (5 BG 7/2). Translucent dusky blue green threads (near 5 BG 3/2). Medium thin glass. A few pinprick bubbles. Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.7 cm in diameter. Added coil and thread. Excess glass at end of zigzag drawn out thin and melted on top of an adjacent segment of zigzag. Collar rim, rounded in flame, above open cutout. Deeply concave neck with curved transition to shoulder. Sloping shoulder. Spherical body. Concave base with kick. Freestanding zigzag coil applied to shoulder and attached to rim, trailed on from left to right with twenty-four segments between shoulder and rim. On body, two rows of zigzags and three and a half revolutions of thread, trailed on from right to left from base to shoulder. One thread forms the lower zigzag and continues as one and a half revolutions of thread; a second thread forms the upper zigzag and is trailed on over the revolutions; a third thread forms two revolutions on the upper body. CLASSIFICATION: Jar Class I B 2 a with blue zigzags.