Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 4th century CE. A wonderful jar of a spherical form that is shaped from translucent glass of a yellow-green hue. The bulbous vessel exhibits a concave base with a rough pontil scar, a rounded shoulder beneath a corseted neckline, a compressed collared rim, and a pair of pulled trail handles in saturated blue-green glass. Adorning the body is a singular trail of applied turquoise-hued glass that spirals around the body and ultimately terminates in a thick, zigzagging program just above the base. Further accentuating the composition are brilliant layers of silvery and rainbow-hued iridescence. Size: 3.875" W x 3.75" H (9.8 cm x 9.5 cm)
Provenance: private East Coast, USA collection, acquired in April 2016; ex-Archaeological Center Ltd., Jaffa, Israel; ex-Martin Wunsch collection, New York, USA, acquired in the 1980s
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Condition
One stable pressure fissure along midsection of collared neck, with minor abrasions and pitting across body and rim, and micro-bubbling within glass matrix, 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. Very light earthen deposits and wonderful iridescence throughout.