bottle
Object NameOctagonal Bottle with Jewish or Muslim Symbols
Made FromGlass
Dateabout 630-700
Place MadePalestine, probably Jerusalem
TechniqueMold-blown, tooled
SizeOverall H: 10.3 cm; Body W: 10.1 cm; Rim Diam: 6.1 cm
Accession Number50.1.34
Curatorial Area(s)
Exhibitions
Glass of the Caesars
Ennion and His Legacy: Mold-Blown Glass From Ancient Rome
Title Unknown (The Metropolitan Museum of Art-Morgan Collection)
On ViewAncient Gallery
Physical DescriptionOctagonal Bottle with Jewish or Muslim Symbols. Translucent dark brown glass; mold-blown, tooled. Broad octagonal body, rim horizontal, outsplayed, folded upward and inward to narrow reworked mouth; short neck which tapers, then splays to merge with wide sloping shoulder; octagonal body with vertical side; flat base, rough pontil scar. Mold-blown decoration on all sides of body; on each side, sunken panel with frame of small depressions containing, clockwise: (1) menorah with tripod foot, shofar below; (2) stylized tree with depressions in angles of frame; (3) amphora; (4) not identified; (5) two concentric lozenges with central depression, and depressions in corners of frame; (6) stylized tree; (7) stylized palm (?) tree; (8) aedicula with schematic capitals and column bases, containing tree-like motif.Provenance
Source
Steuben Glass, Inc.
(American, founded 1903) - 1950-10-01
Former Collection
J. Pierpont Morgan
(American, 1937-1913)
