Glass vessel with handle, conical shaped bottom with narrow neck and slightly flared rim. [MJD (Verve) 23/2/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Glass vessel with handle, conical shaped bottom with narrow neck and slightly flared rim. [MJD (Verve) 23/2/2016]
Long description: Glass vessel with handle, conical shaped bottom with narrow neck and slightly flared rim. The rim has a lip. The glass is transparent blue with areas of iridescence. There is residue inside the vessel. [MJD (Verve) 23/2/2016]
Geographical reference: Italy
Europe > Southern Europe > Italy; Campania Provincia di Napoli Cumae
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Roman
Date collected: 1851 Jan
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Glass
Dimensions: Height 90 mm, Diameter 50 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.42.2 PR no.: ?
Research and responses: Pitt-Rivers possibly visited Naples in 1851 (see Chapman 1981: chapter 1, p. 14), and Cumae is close by to the west, near the coast - so it is not impossible that he collected this object himself during that trip. [Dan Hicks 19/07/2013]
Pitt-Rivers bought a number of objects at a Sotheby auction on 2 July 1879. The item possibly matches an object in a lot from the sale of the collection of Baron Heath at this sake (Pitt-Rivers also bought other material, including from the James Medurst collection, at that sale): "Lot 13. Seven Roman glass Bottles, tesselated Pavements, Coins, 2 cornelian Scarabaei, and Fragments of bronze and Iron" (Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge 1879: 2). The catalogue is on file in the RDF for 1884.2.1 [Dan Hicks 19/07/2013]

Search terms: Vessel, Jug