Glass jug

Roman, Rhenish

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Translucent cobalt blue; handle, trail, and base ring in same color.
Everted rim folded over and in, and smoothed into side of flaring mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding slightly downwards; sloping shoulder; bulbous body, tapering to applied base ring; flat bottom with slight kick and pontil scar; two-ribbed strap handle attached to top of body with long, downward fins at edges, drawn up and outwards in a curve, then turned in and trailed onto underside of mouth over trail decoration and lip of rim, with a hollow projecting loop above.
Thick trail wound horizontally around underside of mouth, then dropped in a fine trail down neck, and then wound horizontally slightly more than once around lower neck.
Intact; pinprick and large bubbles, and some gritty inclusions; slight dulling and iridescent weathering.

With threads around neck.

Glass jug, Glass, Roman, Rhenish

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