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Translucent yellow-green glass jug with spherical body, thin ribbon handle, thumb rest, and tall neck with rolled lip

The exterior of this translucent yellow-green glass jug has brownish-gold staining with scattered patches of sheen. The body of the jug is spherical, narrowing to a short, wide base with straight sides. The neck of the vase is tall and thin, slightly narrowing as it reaches the lip, which flares out to a flat, rolled rim. There is one delicate and narrow handle that widens as it attaches to the shoulder. The top of the handle curls into a large figure eight form that serves as a thumb rest, before attaching to the top of the neck.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1920.44.72
Title
Jug
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
1st-4th century CE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World
Culture
Graeco-Roman
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/292953

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Glass
Technique
Free-blown glass
Dimensions
9.8 x 7.6 cm (3 7/8 x 3 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1920.

Note: The Misses Norton were the daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Misses Norton
Accession Year
1920
Object Number
1920.44.72
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
One-handled jug in translucent, yellow-green glass. flattened, spherical body, narrowing to base, narrow neck, flat ring mouth, ribbon handle applied to the shoulder and terminating at the rim (particularly elaborate at the mouth). Intact; some opalescent sheen and dirt accretions.

Classification: C. Isings, Roman Glass from Dated Finds (Djakarta: Groningen, 1957), form 53.

Comparisons: Metropolitan Museum of Art 74.51.133.

Subjects and Contexts

  • Roman Domestic Art

Verification Level

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