New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Vase

Manufacturer Unknown

CultureRoman

Date300-499 A.D.

MediumBlown glass

DimensionsOverall: 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm)
Overall, Rim: 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm)
Base: 2 in. (5.1 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Object number65.27.1

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 116-1, Case 2

DescriptionVase/lamp of blown greenish tinted glass. Squat globular shape with a tooled flaring foot and a "squashed" folded inward rim. Decorated all over with thin threading and with twelve applied shell end thin handles, from rim to shoulder.

Label TextLate Roman Empire, Eastern Mediterranean Jar, 4th-5th century A.D. Blown glass; applied threads Museum purchase, C.W. Grandy Fund 65.27.1