Jar with Two Handles

Object Name: 
Jar with Two Handles

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Object Name: 
Jar with Two Handles
Accession Number: 
82.1.6
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 8.6 cm, W: 9.8 cm, D: 6.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
400-599
Primary Description: 
Colorless glass with aqua tinge, applied deep blue trails; blown with pinched applied trail decoration. Globular body with wide rounded rim, wide long neck tapers slightly into globular body with flattened base; heavy blue trail applied at rim, thin trails on neck spiral downward, seven horizontal pinched decorations below greatest diameter, heavy blue trail applied above and into these in a zigzag pattern, above this a series of thin blue trails carelessly pinched together to form an oval or "spectacle" pattern, over this pattern, two opposing handles were applied at the shoulder and pulled up to the rim; slightly kicked base, pontil mark.
Department: 
Provenance: 
Galerie Nefer, Source
1982-12-31
Category: 
Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, Volume Two (2001) illustrated, pp. 164-165, pl. 692; BIB# 58895