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Object NameFragment of Flask Shaped like Lens

Made FromGlass

Date1400-1360 BCE

Place MadeEgypt

TechniqueCore-formed, trail decorated, applied, marvering

SizeOverall H: 6.6 cm; Body W: 4.5 cm, D: 7.5 cm

Accession Number75.1.116

Credit LineGift of Ray Winfield Smith

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Not On View

Physical DescriptionOpaque turquoise body, trails of lighter opaque turquoise, opaque yellow and opaque white, all glasses are bubbly with stone and thin iridescent film; core-formed, trail decorated, applied rim and handles. Fragment preserves rim, neck, handles and part of body, rounded thickened rim formed by applying trail to short cylindrical neck, wall spreads out into flattened lentoid shape, single applied relatively horizontal trail of opaque white preserved at lower portion of body, two trails of lighter turquoise run down from each handle and cross over the white trail, a heavy trail of opaque yellow runs in a snake-like line below the handles on one side but seems to degenerate into a random curvilinear pattern on the other side of the vessel and around the neck, here the trail is quite thick and is not well marvered into the surface, although the rim was applied before the trail decoration, the handles were applied after the completion of the marvering; interior preserves a thick accumulation of white core material.
Provenance

Source Ray Winfield Smith (American, 1897-1982) - 1974-12-12

Former Collection Julien Gréau

Former Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art