Glass jar

Unknown

3rd century CE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Small jar. Colorless but with purple streaks. Rim folded out, over, and in; funnel-shaped neck; sloping shoulder; squat bulbous body with side curving in to pushed-in bottom. Intact; pinprick and some larger bubbles, blowing striations, and one elongated bubble in rim; iridescence and severe weathering.

Artist

Unknown

Date

3rd century CE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Bequest of Mary Anna Palmer Draper, 1915