Jar and lid (Olla Ossuaria)

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Jar and lid (Olla Ossuaria)

Place of OriginAncient Rome; perhaps Cologne

DateLate 1st - early 2nd century CE

DimensionsH: 32 cm (12 5/8 in.); Rim Diam: 16 cm (6 3/8 in.)

MediumColorless glass; free-blown, tooled, applied M-shaped handles.

ClassificationGlass

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

Object number

1977.14A-B

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. Many small ovoid and larger elongated bubbles. Black specks and stone. Free-blown. No pontil mark. Tooled. Excess glass at tips of handles drawn back against handle past point of touch down. Hollow rim, folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. Deeply concave neck. Nearly spherical body. Open pushed-in base. Two M-shaped curved coil handles applied and attached to shoulder, center part of handle then folded inward and downward, touched down between application and attachment points, and pinched flat. CLASSIFICATION Jar II C 2 a; Isings 1957, Form 63

Published ReferencesGrose, David, "Ancient Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 20, no. 3, 1978, p. 69, 81, repr. fig. 18.

"Recent Important Acquisitions," Journal of Glass Studies, vol. 20, 1978, repr. p. 120.

Lees-Causey, Catherine, "Some Roman Glass in the J. Paul Getty Museum," The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, vol. 11, 1983, p. 153.

Grose, David, "The Origins and Early History of Glass," in The History of Glass, London, 1984, repr. (col.) p. 32.

Chambers, Karen S., Clearly Inspired: Contemporary Glass and Its Origins, San Francisco, 1999, repr. p. 35.

Page, Jutta-Annette, The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, Toledo Museum of Art, 2006, repr. (col.) p. 37.