Bulbous Jar with Zigzag Neck Coil

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Palestine

DateFourth century

DimensionsH: 2 3/4 in. (6.9 cm); Rim Diam: 3 in. (7.7 cm); Body Diam: 3 1/16 in. (7.8 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown and tooled, decoration hot-tooled on.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1020

Not on View

DescriptionMedium thin glass. Blowing spirals. Fabric cannnot be determined because of weathering. Transparent natural grayish yellow green (5 GY 7/2). Translucent similarly colored zigzag. Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.5 cm in diameter. Added coil and thread. Excess glass at end of zigzag drawn out thin and wound over zigzag. Collapsed collar rim, rounded in flame, with open cutout below. Jacked neck. Concave shoulder. Squat bulbous body with greatest diameter at middle. Concave base with kick. Freestanding zigzag coil, applied to shoulder and attached to rim, trailed on from left to right with fourteen segments between shoulder and rim and continued with two and a half revolutions of straight thread along top of rim and over center of zigzag. CLASSIFICATION: Jar Class I B 2 a; cf. Barag 1970a, II pl. 34 type 6.10.

Published ReferencesPuma, Richard Daniel de, Art In Roman Life: Villa to Grave, Rome, L'erma di Bretschneider, 2009, p. 130, no. 175.Exhibition HistoryCedar Rapids Museum of Art, Art in Roman Life: Villa to Grave, September 2003-August 2005 (no catalog).

The Dayton Art Institute, The Roman World: Religions and Everyday Life (featuring the Brooklyn Museum exhibition: Tree of Paradise: Jewish Mosaics from the Roman Empire), September 21, 2007-January 6, 2008 (no catalog).