pitcher

Object NamePitcher

Made FromGlass

Date450-330 BCE

Place MadePersia

Techniquecast, probably wheel-cut, ground, polished

SizeOverall H: 18.3 cm, Diam: 9.3 cm

Accession Number66.1.16

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Exhibitions

A Tribute to Persia

Ancient Persia: The Art of an Empire

On ViewAncient Gallery

Physical DescriptionColorless glass with slight yellow-green tinge, some small bubbles, heavily strain-cracked with patches of iridescent film and pitting on exterior surface; cast, probably wheel-cut and polished. Rim rounded by grinding flares out from wide relief-cut band on neck, wall bends in to form long, wide straight-sided neck before spreading out into ovoid body with greatest diameter just below shoulder; the transition between neck and shoulder is highlighted by a second wide relief-cut band, the entire body is decorated with thirty-eight flutes with rounded tops which radiate from a third relief-cut band near the bottom of the vessel; each flute is concave in cross section; the base of the vessel is decorated with a nineteen-petal rosette engraved on the surface and probably radiated from a small circle with a center point.
Provenance

Source Edward (Esteban) T. Safani (1912-1998) - 1966-02-22