bottle
Object NameBottle
Made FromGlass
Dateprobably 1360-1225 BCE
Place MadeEgypt
Techniquecore-formed, tooled, trail decorated
SizeOverall H: 11.5 cm; Body Diam (max): 5.5 cm
Accession Number58.1.24
Curatorial Area(s)
On ViewAncient Gallery.
Physical DescriptionOpaque medium turquoise glass, extremely bubbly with much white stone, surface devitrification, some patches of light brown weathering, trails of opaque white, opaque deep blue, opaque turbid yellow and opaque brown; core-formed, tooled and trail decorated. Wall spreads out from rim to form an uneven elongated egg-shaped vessel; rounded and tooled rim is decorated with a relief trail of white spirally wound with brown glass, a second trail of this type is applied at the greatest diameter to form a register on the long sloping body, the lower trail is marvered in; the upper trail retains traces of two small trail handles of yellow glass; the body is decorated with a trail of blue, yellow and white each repeated four times, marvered in and dragged up to the rim ten times; below the register, the body tapers in to a rounded point.Provenance
Source
Leopold Blumka
(-1973) - 1958-06-05
