Thick yellow-green glass, extremely bubbly with small spatters of white weathering displaced over exterior surface, interior retains even weathering with brown incrustation and some black dendritic patterns; cast, cut and polished. Large ovoid form on elaborately profiled stem and foot; thick cylindrical collar rim sits on top of squat ovoid form which tapers down into a wide angular band profiled above and below by two horizontal relief-cut bands, the stem continues down in an almost-cylindrical shape before flaring out into a solid flat foot, below the large angular profiled band is a second smaller cylindrical band with irregular grooves; in cross section the edge is highlighted with a groove; massive lug handles, triangular in profile are cut from the original blank and extend down the side of the vessel, the handle becomes wider as it moves away from the rim and is beveled on the edges of the upper surface, the side of the handle has been cut in to form a deep vertical rectangular notch, from here the greatest thickness of the handle has been drilled at an angle toward the top and met by a smaller drill down from the upper surface of the handle.

Between 1200 and 1100 B.C., for reasons we do not fully understand, Bronze Age cultures in and around the eastern Mediterranean collapsed. Industries making luxury goods were among the first to vanish. Few glass objects dating between 1200 and 900 B.C. have been found. The manufacture of glass vessels resumed in the second half of the eighth century in Phoenicia and Assyria, where many glass table wares have been excavated at the sites of palaces. Cast monochrome cups, bowls, and vases were among the earliest Iron Age glass vessels. This vase and the famous Sargon vase in the British Museum belong to the early series of cast and cold-worked forms. The irregularity of the finishing on the Corning example, one of the most elaborate objects of its kind, indicates that it could not have been produced on a lathe - and that it was cut and polished by hand.