A large Roman green glass jar

4TH-5TH CENTURY A.D.

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A large Roman green glass jar
4th-5th Century A.D.
The squat globular body with concave base, the short cylindrical neck with wide flaring mouth and thick inward-folded rim, the body decorated with twelve pinched vertical ribs and a thick encircling zigzag trail attached at the rim and shoulder, the whole with iridescence; and a translucent glass trefoil-lipped oinochoe on folded circular foot, the body with five rows of faint mould-blown dots, with single applied handle, 3rd Century A.D.
3 5/8in. (9.3cm.) high and 6½in. (16.5cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

Item two: cf. S. B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale, 1980, p. 107, no. 281 for a small juglet with identical decoration. "Although a number of vessels have this decoration, duplication of shapes is rare. It may be that the shapes were formed by further inflation and tooling after removal from the mould causing faintness of decoration and an absence of clear mould seams on many of these vessels."

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