A BYZANTINE GLASS MULTI-HANDLED JAR
Property from the Paul and Helen Zuckerman Collection
A BYZANTINE GLASS MULTI-HANDLED JAR

CIRCA 5TH-6TH CENTURY A.D.

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A BYZANTINE GLASS MULTI-HANDLED JAR
CIRCA 5TH-6TH CENTURY A.D.
Yellow-green in color, free blown, the globular body on a flaring foot, the funnel mouth with an outfolded horizontal rib, with fourteen dark green handles pulled up from the shoulders, dipped onto the flange and joined to the rim
6 7/16 in. (16.7 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired by Paul and Helen Zuckerman, Detroit, 1960s-1970s.

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For a similar example, see no. 316, p. 119 in Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery.

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