Covered Jar

Pompeii, Italy

1st century

  • Titles Covered Jar (Descriptive)
  • Medium clay
  • Dimensions Overall: 2 3/4 x 3 in. (7 x 7.6 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Sterling Wortham, 1966.6a-b
  • Work Type jar with cover
  • Classification Containers

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Small, roundish bottle, or jar, of blown bluish-green, slightly translucent and iridescent glass with two curved handles and a thin bail handle of a different green glass, with narrow neck, the body decorated with applied, thin glass bands above a thicker, band of darker blue-green glass applied in a zig-zag pattern.
Tall unguentarium, or tear vase or bottle, in the form of a candlestick with a bulbous base and long neck with flared lip of blown glass with iridescent shades of green, gold and purple.