Pitcher

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Object Name: 
Pitcher
Place Made: 
Roman Empire
Accession Number: 
97.1.15
Dimensions: 
Overall H (max): 15.4 cm, Diam (max): 8.2 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
300-499
Credit Line: 
Gift in honor of Dr. William A. Turnbaugh and Sarah Peabody Turnbaugh for their work in the fields of anthropology and archaeology
Primary Description: 
Pale green transparent glass; blown, applied. Globular pitcher. Mouth shaped like funnel, with rounded rim; neck cylindrical, wider at bottom than at top; base has splayed foot ring made by coiling thick trail in two and one half to three revolutions, and kick; pontil mark. Below rim, single horizontal trail, with similar trail at bottom of neck. Handle with oval cross section dropped onto shoulder, drawn up and out, then bent sharply in and attached to edge of rim, with excess glass drawn up in triangular thumb rest.

More Info

Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
Weiner, Camilla M. (Mrs. Frank G.), Source
1997-07-30
Wiener, Frank G., Source
1997-07-30
Category: 
Roman
Color: 
light green
Technique: 
glassblowing
tooling
Material: 
glass

Publications (1)

Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, Volume Two (2001) pp. 176-177, pl. 714; BIB# 58895