amphoriskos
Object NameAmphoriskos
Made FromGlass
Date125-1 BCE
Place MadeEastern Mediterranean
Techniquecore-formed, trail-decorated, tooled
SizeOverall H: 12.6 cm; Body Diam: 4.7 cm
Accession Number72.1.99
Credit LineGift of Miss Gertrude Walker
Curatorial Area(s)
Exhibitions
The Fragrant Past: Perfumes of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar
VENINI - Glass and Design in a World Perspective
Not On View
Physical DescriptionTranslucent medium blue glass body, extremely bubbly with some white stone, greenish-yellow glass handles, dull surface pitted with some iridescence, many medium to large bubbles, opaque white and opaque yellow trails; core-formed, trail-decorated, tooled. Thick squat vessel, thickened flared rim tapers into long almost cylindrical neck, tooling marks in evidence at constriction, neck spreads out into sloping shoulder and short ovoid body, yellow trail and white trail applied on upper surface of rim, wound alternately down neck to shoulder ten times and on body sixteen times, being dragged upward in a festoon pattern sixteen times and continues down to the base with six more winds; all trails have been marvered in over the entire surface; handles were applied at rim, pulled up into an arc, bent down and attached at the neck somewhat unevenly, a corresponding blob of glass applied at the base is now missing.Provenance
Source
Gertrude Walker
- 1972
199-1 BCE
probably 1400-1300 BCE
150-1 BCE
799-600 BCE
1975-2010
1400-1360 BCE
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