Jar with Heavy Zigzag Trail From Shoulder to Rim

Object Name: 
Jar with Heavy Zigzag Trail From Shoulder to Rim

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Object Name: 
Jar with Heavy Zigzag Trail From Shoulder to Rim
Place Made: 
Egypt
Roman Empire
Accession Number: 
74.1.26
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 14 cm, Diam: 12.7 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
300-399
Primary Description: 
Transparent yellowish-green glass with purple streaks; blown, tooled and applied. Ovoid body and pad base; rim outsplayed, folded up and in; deep concave neck; squat ovoid body with greatest diameter below mid-point, curving in at bottom; pad base, splayed, with criss-cross tooling; kick and pontil mark (post technique). Single horizontal trail at narrowest point on neck; heavy zigzag trail with overlapping ends pulled up from shoulder to underside of rim.

More Info

Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
Smith, Ray Winfield (American, 1897-1982), Source
1974-12-12
Category: 
Roman
Color: 
yellow
green
purple
Technique: 
glassblowing
hot-working
applied decoration
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (3)

Ambrose and Agustine: The Origins of Europe
Venue(s)
Museo Diocesano 2003-11-01 through 2004-06-01
(exhibit title) Ambrogio e Agostino: Le sorgenti dell'Europe
Exhibition of Glass from Private American Collections and the Smithsonian Institution
Venue(s)
Smithsonian Institution 1962 through 1962
 
Verres Antiques de la Collection R.W. Smith
Venue(s)
Musee de Mariemont 1954 through 1954