jar

Object NameJar

Made FromGlass

Date1400-1360 BCE

Place MadeEgypt

Techniquecore-formed, tooled, trail decoration

SizeOverall H: 8.6 cm; Rim Diam: 4.9 cm

Accession Number59.1.6

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Exhibitions

Ancient Glass from the Collection of Ray W. Smith

Verres Antiques de la Collection R.W. Smith

Glass from the Ancient World

On ViewAncient Gallery

Physical DescriptionOpaque deep blue glass, bubbly with white stone and opaque brick red flakes, patches of devitrification, some milky white film, trails of opaque yellow and opaque white; core-formed, tooled and trail decorated. Thin flat rim, rounded at edge retains a single trail of yellow marvered in; bends in to form wide cylindrical neck decorated with a register formed by two yellow trails and filled with six white trails, all marvered in and dragged alternately up and down twenty-eight times to form a feathered or festooned pattern; body spreads out to form inverted mushroom shape, at shoulder, remains of two small loop handles of deep blue glass; body is decorated with a register unevenly outlined by two yellow trails and filled with five narrow white trails dragged alternately up and down thirty-two times; the pedestal foot is entirely restored and probably highlighted with a yellow trail.
Provenance

Source Ray Winfield Smith (American, 1897-1982) - 1959-07-27