Glass spouted jug
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Translucent deep blue green; handle in same color.
Oval, outsplayed rim with vertical, rounded and thickened lip; upward-projecting spout at front and indents in sides below; neck expands downwards; globular body; thick, tubular, base ring; pushed-in bottom with pontil scar; three-ribbed handle applied to upper body, drawn up and outwards, then turned in horizontally and pressed onto top of back of rim with small, flattened, projecting thumb rest.
Intact; many bubbles, blowing striations, and a few glassy inclusions; dulling, and patches of brownish weathering and iridescence.
With pointed mouth and globular body; greenish.
Credit: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881
2nd–3rd century A.D.
Glass; blown and tooled
13.8 x 13.8cm
81.10.100
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018
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