139. Roman strap handled jug, 1st century AD
Glass
Height 12.7cm
10986 IVP
£ 2,000.00
Free-blown in pale green transparent glass, of globular form with tapering cylindrical neck, flared rim and outsplayed and folded-in lip, a tubular foot, flattened and pushed in. The body decorated...
Free-blown in pale green transparent glass, of globular form with tapering cylindrical neck, flared rim and outsplayed and folded-in lip, a tubular foot, flattened and pushed in. The body decorated with ten perpendicular lines of applied trail, and a singular thicker horizontal ring around the neck. A single handle drawn from the shoulder up to the lip and with a fold to create a thumb rest. Some encrustation to the interior, intact.
Provenance
Donna Jacobs Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, 1989Property from the George R. Francoeur Trust, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, sold to benefit the George R. Francoeur Scholarship Fund at Cranbrook Academy of Art
