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THBFine Roman Glass Jug w/ Handle
Lot 77b
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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- Lot Description
Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 3rd to 4th century CE. A beautiful jug of an elegant form, free-blown from translucent glass of a yellow-green hue. The inverted piriform body has a slightly concave base with a smooth pontil scar, a rounded shoulder, a tapered neck, and a funnel-form mouth with a rolled rim. A singular handle was first applied to the shoulder, pulled up to an angle, attached to the rim, and pinched on the top to form a thumb rest. Glass jugs like this example were used to contain large volumes of scented oils, though the gaping mouth suggests it held a more regularly used substance like table olive oil or the fermented fish sauce called garum. Brilliant layers of silvery and rainbow-hued iridescence have formed across the exterior and gracefully complement the vessel's soft spring coloration. Size: 2.7" W x 7.25" H (6.9 cm x 18.4 cm)
For a stylistically similar example with a wider body, please see "Solid Liquid: Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Art." Fortuna Fine Arts, Ltd., New York, 1999, p. 86, fig. 154.
For another stylistically similar example with a discoid foot and a wider midsection, please see The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 81.10.250.
Provenance: ex-private prominent D.K. collection, New York, USA, acquired in the 2000s
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#152748Minor abrasions and encrustations to base, body, handle, neck, and rim, with micro-bubbling within glass matrix, light weathering film, and petite chip to trail of thumb rest inside rim, otherwise intact and excellent. Pontil mark on underside of base. A pontil scar or mark indicates that a vessel was free-blown, while the absence of such a mark suggests that the work was either mold-blown or that the mark was intentionally smoothed away or wore away over time. Nice earthen deposits as well as wonderful silver and rainbow iridescence throughout.Condition
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