Pointed Jar with Multiple Handles, on Foot

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Pointed Jar with Multiple Handles, on Foot

Place of OriginRoman Empire, probably Syria

DateProbably 5th century

DimensionsH: 4 5/8 in. (11.8 cm); Rim Diam: 2 3/4 in. (7 cm); Diam (body): 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown, tooled, applied decoration

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1061

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DescriptionMedium thin glass with a few pinprick and small bubbles. Transparent natural dusky yellow green body (5 GY 5/2) with applied translucent moderate brown handles (near 5 YR 3/4). The vessel is free-blown with a pontil mark approximately 1.6 cm in diameter. Excess glass at the tips of the handles is folded upward and back against the tops of the handles. The rim is rounded in flame with an open projecting roll below. The tall, straight-walled neck shows a tool mark at its base and transitions to a sloping shoulder. The inverted ovoid body tapers to a pointed end above a high pushed-in base that forms a hollow tubular base ring. Eight angular coil handles are applied to the shoulder, touched down to the side of the cutout, and attached to the outside of the rim where they protrude slightly inward. This vessel is classified as Jar Class IV D 12 b.

Published ReferencesGrose, David, "Ancient Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 20, no. 3, 1978, p. 82, repr. fig. 28.