3-037-385 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Aryballos, 1st century A.D. Additional Info: Free-blown splashware aryballos of violet translucent glass rolled into chips of various colored glass (opaque white, yellow, light blue, turquoise, and dark blue), marvered to incorporate the flakes. Subsequently inflated, whereby the chips are distorted in the areas of greaetest expansion. rim and neck formed after transfer from blowpipe to pontil, rim pulled down, back up on itself, then flared out. Handles attached under the rim and pulled down to the shoulder..