ROMAN GLASS JUG with TREFOIL LIP

AJAM 036 Jug with trefoil lip, 4th century AD

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AJAM /Collection of Ancient Glass

Origin: Eastern Mediterranean, probably southern Lebanon. Date: 4th centure AD

Size: ↑ 18 cm │Ø max.11.5 cm │ Ø rim  7 cm │ weight 222.72 gr. Technique: Free blown.  

Description: Transparent pale green jug, with spherical body and diabolically flared cylindrical neck. After heating with tools, the top of the neck is shaped into a so-called cloverleaf mouth. A long narrow green-coloured grip is pulled up from the shoulder of the body and folded with a gooseneck bend on the top of the edge of the mouth. As decoration, three vertical ribs are formed in the handle. Glass threads are applied around the neck and mouth edge. The whole is attached to a hollow round foot ring. Pontil mark is present.

Remark: These Roman wine pouring jugs are derived from the classical Greek oinochoe. This particular form of pottery with its characteristic trefoil (trefoil) mouth goes  back to the fifth century BC and experienced a renaissance in Roman fashion.

Condition: Intact, with a small chip from the edge of the mouth.

Provenance: 2003- 2010, Dutch private collection Paul. Cuperus, Laren (NL) No. PEC 073, From the 90s of the twentieth century until 2003 Lebanese private collection Michel. Attar, Beirut.

Exhibited:

Thermenmuseum Heerlen (NL), Roman Glass, borrowed from private collections, exp. No.78.29 April – 28 August 2011. Het Patriciërshuis Dordrecht (NL), Glass through the Ages, exp. No. AAD006. 11 April – 7 October 2018.

Published 2008, A Collection of Roman Glass, Paul E. Cuperus, p. 112, No. PEC 073. 2018, magazine VIND No.30, p. 145. On the occasion of the exhibition Glass through the Ages

​References

Ancient Glass in the Israel Museum, the Eliahu Dobkin collection,Y Israeli,Jerusalem,  No. 202.

Glas von der Antike bis zum Jugendstil, Sammlung Hans Cohn,A. van Saldern, No. 123.