ROMAN RIBBED BLUE GLASS JAR

Object Description

Ca. 1st – 3rd Century AD

Roman glass jar with a wide mouth. The jar is remarkably colourless with a slight blue-green tinge and encrustation. It has an splayed rim, folded over and in with a hollow projecting roll below for added detail. It has a funnel neck, with a flat shoulder projecting into a bulbous body with a concave lower end and pushed in bottom.

Size: L: 102mm / W: 95mm ; 107g

Object History

Property of an Oxfordshire art professional; previously in an old British collection, formed in the 1980s on the UK/international art markets.

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