Three-handled flask
Three-handled flask

On view

East-West Artwalk
Haskell Education Center

Three-handled flask,

4th–5th century

Roman
Roman Imperial Period, ca. 30 BCE–476 CE
y1946-273

Information

Title
Three-handled flask
Dates

4th–5th century

Medium
Transparent light green and peacock-blue glass
Dimensions
h. 12.7 cm, diam. rim 4 cm, diam. base 4.8 cm, max. diam. 6.2 cm (5 x 1 9/16 x 1 7/8 x 2 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Platt from the bequest of Dan Fellows Platt, Class of 1895
Object Number
y1946-273
Description
Fire-polished lip; wide cylindrical neck, wider at top; ovoid body; pushed-in base forming a disk foot. Three angular handles of a peacock-blue coil from shoulder to a third of the way up the neck. Thread of the same color wound spirally seventeen times around the neck and topped by a zigzag of thicker thread. At the center of the bottom is an annular pontil mark, 1.2 cm. wide.
Period
Roman (style or period), Imperial (Roman)
Type
jars, glass
Materials
free-blown glass
Subject
stripes, zigzags

Given to the Museum by Mrs. Platt from the Bequest of Dan Fellows Platt in 1946

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