fragment
Object NameFragment of Flask
Made FromGlass
Date1350-1225 BCE
Place MadeEgypt
Techniquecore-formed, trail-decorated, tooled
SizeOverall H: 2.2 cm
Accession Number54.1.158-5
Credit LineGift of Fahim Kouchakji
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
Physical DescriptionFragment from core-formed vessel which has subsequently been trail-decorated and tooled. Translucent deep blue glass with applied trails of opaque yellow, opaque white, turquoise and turbid medium blue, slightly weathered, dull surface. Fragment preserves thickened rim and wide cylindrical neck decorated overall with alternating trails of yellow, turbid blue, white, yellow and turquoise dragged up and subsequently marvered into the surface, the rim formed after the decoration was applied and subsequently elaborated with a coil of blue glass spirally wound with opaque white applied to the edge of the rim.Provenance
Source
Fahim Kouchakji
(b. Syria, 1886-1976)
