SQUARE JAR __with FLARING RIM AND FOUR INDENTED SIDES
The Augustinus Collection of Ancient Glass
Isings form: 62. Second half of the third century A.D.
H: 7cm. W: 6cm. Rim: 6cm. Diameter dents: 3.2-3.5 cm
Technique: Free blown bottle __with four unevenly flattened sides indented with a tool; rim splayed out to the diameter of the body, turned down and tooled horizontally; rim rounded.
Description: Jar of translucent glass with blue silvery iridescence and black encrustation; spherical body with four asymmetric sidewalls in which four roughly-shaped round dents; concave base; no foot-ring; no pontil mark.
Condition: Intact and complete, no cracks. Heavy black and silver iridescence.
Remarks: From the Rhineland. According to Stuart Flemming this kind of vessel is quite identical to one found in a physicians grave in Cologne, Germany. (Kuezl, 1983, Germ. Inf.7), According to C. Isings the flaring rim is a variation of the square jar in general, with differences in thickness of the glass with lots of finds from Pompeii in variation.
Provenance: From a private dutch collection.
Reference: Morin Jean, 1913 p. 145. Isings, 1957, form 62, p.81. Fremersdorf 1957, Die Farblosen Glaeser: p. 53, no:128. Auth, 1976, p. 137, no:172 and p. 221 no’s: 465 and 466 Kunina 1997, p. 314/317, no: 311 Fleming 1999, p. 111, no: E.112.