Glass jug

Unknown

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

Translucent blue-green; handle in same color. Rim folded out, round, and in, with beveled upper surface; cylindrical neck, with tooling indent around the base; almost horizontal shoulder; squat, bulbous body, curving in at base; hollow base ring, outsplayed on one side; shallow, pushed-in bottom; two-ribbed handle applied to shoulder, with straight tooling indent across back of pad and two claws projecting down on front, drawn up and outwards, then turned in horizontally, and pressed onto side of rim and top of neck, with vertical projecting loop as a thumb rest above rim. Intact; some pinprick bubbles and blowing striations; slight dulling, thick creamy brown weathering, and iridescence.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1st–2nd century CE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881