jar
Object NameJar with Three Handles
Made FromGlass
Date1400-1360 BCE
Place MadeEgypt
Techniquecore-formed, trailed, tooled
SizeOverall H: 12.1 cm; Rim Diam: 3 cm; Shoulder Diam: 5.5 cm
Accession Number55.1.58
Curatorial Area(s)
Exhibitions
Glass from the Ancient World
The Lure of Egypt: Land of the Pharaohs Revisited
A Touch of Glass
On ViewAncient Gallery
Physical DescriptionTranslucent cobalt blue bubbly with white rounded stone and some flakes of opaque brick red material, trails of opaque white and opaque yellow glass; core-formed, trail decorated and tooled. Rounded rim flared out from neck, white trail applied at rim and marvered in; neck is almost cylindrical with yellow trails forming a register containing three white trails, all marvered in and dragged up eleven times; neck spreads out into an inverted piriform body, three handles of cobalt blue are pulled up to form loops; the area just below the shoulder is decorated with a register defined by two trails of yellow and filled with four to five white trails, all are marvered in and dragged up eighteen times; the bottom tapers to a round form before spreading out into a tooled pad base, the underside retains a high kick from tooling.Provenance
Source
Ray Winfield Smith
(American, 1897-1982) - 1955-09-21
Former Collection
Friedrick Wilhelm von Blissing
