Glass jar with marvered trails

Unknown

5th century CE or later · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Translucent purple; trails in opaque brownish red and white. Thick, outsplayed rim, with slightly beveled edge; funnel-shaped neck; pushed-in shoulder; globular body; kick in bottom, with traces of pontil pad. Two marvered trails wound in a spiral from rim to bottom; on body and neck, tooled into hanging festoons with seventeen upward tooling strokes; around bottom, tooled downward, forming a very confused pattern. Intact; pinprick bubbles on surface; thick creamy brown weathering and iridescence covering most of body with areas of pitting and dulling on exterior.

Artist

Unknown

Date

5th century CE or later

Medium

Glass

Culture

Roman, Syro-Palestinian

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935