76. Roman jug with trailing, Late 1st century AD
Glass
Height: 14.6cm
11220
£ 8,000.00
Free-blown in translucent, pale yellow glass, with an applied opaque cornflower-blue translucent. The spherical body is decorated with blue spiral trailing, the same glass is used for the handle which...
Free-blown in translucent, pale yellow glass,
with an applied opaque cornflower-blue
translucent. The spherical body is decorated
with blue spiral trailing, the same glass is used for the handle which is drawn from the
shoulder, folded and attached beneath the lip,
creating a thumb-rest, the neck relatively tall,
the lip out-turned and inward-folded, the body
set on an integral raised tubular foot. Intact,
small losses to the trail around the neck area.
The combination of the opaque blue and
yellow is rare, and may indicate a North
Italian workshop.
Provenance
Antiquarium Ltd, New York, USAPrivate collection, USA; acquired from from the above, 1988
