Glass jug

Unknown

1st–2nd century CE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Translucent pale blue green, with same color handle. Collared rim, folded out, down, and up, with lip on outer edge of flaring mouth; cylindrical neck with tooled indent around base; straight sides to conical body; flat bottom; handle applied as a long trail down side and lower part of neck, then drawn out in a loop and trailed on to rim and top of neck. Trail on body below handle decorated with ten horizontal crimped notches. Complete except for part of rim with weathered breaks; many pinprick and larger bubbles; deep pitting, brilliant iridescence, and patches of silvery weathering.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1st–2nd century CE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76