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

DescriptionThis oval jug is made of medium thin glass with a fair number of small spherical and vertically elongated bubbles and a few sandy impurities. The body and handle are transparent dark yellow, and the handle is similarly colored. The neck and mouth were free-blown, while the body was blown into a one-piece patterned mold and then expanded. A pontil mark measuring about 1.3 cm in diameter is visible. The jug has a spouted mouth with a rim folded outward, upward, and inward. The cylindrical neck transitions smoothly to the strongly sloped shoulder and the ovoid body. The concave base has a tooled kick. A curved hollow handle, nearly square in cross section, was applied to the shoulder and attached to the top of the rim, where it was folded upward and pinched to form a flat thumbrest that projects diagonally above the rim. The mouth has a trefoil-shaped tooled lip. The mold-blown decoration on the body consists of twelve horizontal rows of small sunken dots. This jug is classified as II C 1 b with handle IV A 1 a.