Jar

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Object Name: 
Jar
Place Made: 
Roman Empire
Palestine
Syria
Accession Number: 
66.1.28
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 9 cm; Body W: 6.1 cm; Rim Diam: 6.1 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
500-699
Primary Description: 
Translucent brown glass; mold-blown, multi-part mold, rim reworked. Short hexagonal body with straight side; rim outsplayed, turned upward, inward and downward to base of neck, creating rounded tubular lip; neck tapers; low rounded shoulder; base kicked, pontil scar. Mold-blown decoration on body on all six faces, each has rectangular frame composed of small round depressions containing: (1) two concentric lozenges with central boss, with depression in each angle of frame; (2) stylized tree; (3) stylized palm tree; (4) as (1); (5) stylized tree; (6) stylized tree.

More Info

Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
Galerie Heidi Vollmoeller, Source
1966-03-09
Category: 
Byzantine
Roman
Color: 
brown
Technique: 
mold-blowing
hot-working
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (1)

The Book and the Spade
Venue(s)
University of Wisconsin-Madison 1975 through 1975

Publications (2)

Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, Volume Two (2001) illustrated, pp. 105-106, pl. 598; BIB# 58895
The Book and the Spade : v. 3: Final Report (1975) #207; BIB# 19420