Glass jar with two handles

Unknown

4th century CE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Translucent blue green; handles in same color. Outsplayed rim, folded over and in, and smoothed into side of mouth; broad funnel-shaped neck; narrow shoulder; bulbous body; deep kick in bottom with central pontil scar; two large rod handles attached in pads to upper body, drawn up, folded in and downwards, and then trailed onto rim (and top of neck on one side), ending just over top of rim. On body, twelve vertical ribs in relief. Intact; some pinprick bubbles; dulling, fine pitting, and iridescence, with some patches of creamy weathering.

Artist

Unknown

Date

4th century CE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915