amphoriskos

Object NameCosmetic Bottle (Amphoriskos)

Made FromGlass

Date150-1 BCE

Place MadeEastern Mediterranean; possibly Cyprus; possibly Syro-Palestine

TechniqueCore-formed, trail-decorated, tooled

SizeOverall H: 14.6 cm; Shoulder Diam: 5.8 cm

Accession Number58.1.40

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

On ViewAncient Gallery

Physical DescriptionCosmetic Bottle (Amphoriskos). Translucent yellow-green glass, bubbly, patches of silvery iridescence on surface, trails of opaque white and opaque yellow glass; core-formed, trail-decorated, tooled. Rounded rim, slightly flared out from neck by tooling, long cylindrical neck spreads out into wide shoulder and down into ovoid body; heavy trail of yellow applied at top of rim and wound around entire vessel twenty-nine times almost to the base, a white trail is applied at the base of the neck and wound around shoulder and entire body twenty times, all trails are marvered into the surface and a wide register around the body has been decorated by dragging the trails upward unevenly some thirty-five times; two opposing heavy trails of glass are applied at shoulder and pulled up above the rim to form high swung handles then down and attached to the neck below the rim; a blob of similar glass is applied at the base to form a prominent button.
Provenance

Source Fahim Kouchakji (b. Syria, 1886-1976) - 1958-12-30