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Object Name"Spearhead Flask" Bottle

Made FromGlass

Date900-1199

Place Madeprobably Iran; possibly Egypt

TechniqueBlown (body blown in dip mold), applied

SizeOverall H: 16.3 cm, W: 4.4 cm; Rim Diam: 4.4 cm

Accession Number53.1.87

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Exhibitions

Islam and the Medieval West

On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery

Physical Description"Spearhead Flask" Bottle. Transparent pale green, with small bubbles; deep blue trail. Blown (body blown in dip mold); applied. Bottle: roughly carrot-shaped body, with eight-sided horizontal cross section at shoulder and square cross section in lower wall. Rim plain, with rounded lip; neck cylindrical, tapering, and with bulge near bottom; shoulder slopes, with rounded edge; wall tapers and is straight; base plain; pontil mark roughly oval (W. 0.9 cm). Body decorated from shoulder to base with ornament in low relief. On all four sides that extend to base: pair of vertical ribs separated by groove, and with grooves on either side; on sides that taper and cease above base, vertical row of three lozenges that are diamond-shaped at top and narrow rhombuses at bottom. Blue wrap on rim was drawn down over upper neck and wound in one more or less horizontal trail.
Provenance

Source Mrs. C. de la Haye Montbault - 1953-08-01

Former Collection Maurice Nahman (French, 1868-1948)