Two-Handled Pot

Valenzano, Italy

2nd century BC

  • Titles Two-Handled Pot (Descriptive)
  • Medium clay
  • Dimensions Overall: 8 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. (21.6 x 24.1 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Sterling Wortham, 1966.1
  • Work Type pot
  • Classification Containers

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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.
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.