A Two-handled Jar

Roman, 3rd - 4th century A.D.

Greenish yellow and dark green glass.

Height: 10.8 cm

Diameter: 9.0 cm (body)

Diameter: 7.6 cm (rim)

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Biconical glass vessel, the lower half decorated with eleven longitudinal oval depressions; base pushed up into a conical boss. Short, broad neck. High, flaring rim with a centrally concave profile. Two dark green handles, each attached to the rim and extending at an acute angle to the shoulder. Intact; a few light brown deposits, slight iridescence.

PROVENANCE

Formerly in the private collection of Charles Masson (1858–1931), Paris, Chief Curator of the Musée du Luxembourg.

NOTE

Cf. C. E. Suter, Antike Gläser. Sammlung Suter-Pongratz (Basel), 64, no. 82 (without depressions).

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