Jug with Woven Cover

Object Name: 
Jug with Woven Cover

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Object Name: 
Jug with Woven Cover
Place Made: 
probably Egypt
Accession Number: 
77.1.3
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 25.2 cm; Body W: 12.5 cm; Rim Diam: 8.6 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
200-299 or later
Web Description: 
This bottle was probably found in Egypt, where the dry climate preserves ancient organic materials that rarely survive in wetter conditions. The woven cover likely protected the bottle from breakage.

More Info

Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
Sangiorgi, Giorgio (Italian, 1886-1965), Former Collection
Sangiorgi, Sergio (Italian), Source
1977-07-11
Category: 
Roman
Color: 
yellow
green
brown
Technique: 
glassblowing
weaving
twining
hot-working
tying
Material: 
glass
leaf
twine

Description

Primary Description: 
Jug with Woven Cover. (Jug) Yellowish green, transparent glass; (cover) straw-colored to dark brown; (bottle) blown, applied ; (cover) woven, twined, and tied. Bottle: square, with one handle. Rim outsplayed and flattened to form horizontal flange, with uneven horizontal trail applied to underside; neck cylindrical, wider at bottom than at top; sloping shoulder, with rounded edge; wall vertical; base obscured by cover. Strap handle dropped onto shoulder near edge, drawn up and in, and attached to underside of rim. Cover also has one handle. It consists of leaves or strips of leaves (W. about 0.7 cm) woven around bottle in continuous spiral with herringbone pattern that begins at center of base and continues at least to mid-point of neck. Handle has two spirally twisted strands of three-ply twine; its lower end is tied to cover at shoulder.

Publications (5)

Ancient and Islamic Glass: Selections from the Corning Museum of Glass (2019) illustrated, pp. 74;
Zhongguo gu dai bo li qi min = Chinese ancient glass (2018) illustrated, p. 238 (fig. 6-53);
Nel vetro, non per caso. I vasi di vetro come contenitori-imballaggi: una creazione che ci accompagna dall'Antichita: Epoca romana (Inside glass, not by chance. Glass vessels used as containers for packaging: a creation that has accompanied us since ancie (2004) illustrated, p. 52, fig. 33; BIB# 90975
Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, Volume One (1997) pp. 183-184, #323; p. 356, #323; BIB# 58895
Recent Important Acquisitions, 20 (1978) illustrated, p. 120, #10; BIB# AI98080