Object Number | MS245 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Phoenicia |
Manufacture Location | Syro-Palestine |
Date Made | 200-400 CE |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Glass |
Technique | Blown |
Description | Glass green. Rim slightly flared, folded inward and down. Tubular body pinched down the center creating two chambers. Base flattened with pontil mark. Trails laid around body below mid-point. Basket handle folded under rim on sides, slightly flared out again and attached at mid-point, one handle base adjoining trails. Blown with tooled additions. Hole inside of one tube under handle-fold, cracking up to rim; chip off basket handle. Above rim trails broken. Bubbly glass, slight pitting. Dulled inside, milky layer outside, incipient iridescence. |
Height | 15.7 cm |
Width | 6.3 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of John H. Harrison, 1895 |
Other Number | GL14 (ancient glass project) - Other Number |
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