flask

Object NameFlask with Handle

Made FromGlass

Date1400-1360 BCE

Place MadeEgypt

TechniqueCore-formed, trail decorated, tooled

SizeOverall H: 14 cm; Base Diam: 6.1 cm; Neck Diam: 2.3 cm, L: 7 cm

Accession Number71.1.3

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Exhibitions

The Lure of Egypt: Land of the Pharaohs Revisited

On ViewAncient Gallery

Physical DescriptionOpaque medium blue glass, minute bubbles, broken with rim, handle and part of foot missing, applied trails of opaque white, opaque yellow and opaque turquoise glass; core-formed, trail decorated and tooled. Rim missing, long cylindrical neck preserves trace of white glass trail left in relief at upper edge, the preserved surface decorated with twenty-nine alternating trails white and turquoise broken into four registers by three applied trails of yellow glass; trails marvered into surface and dragged up toward rim nine times; wall spreads out into a squat globular body decorated with a similar pattern of thirteen applied trails of white and turquoise highlighted by yellow; all have been marvered in and dragged up forming a festooned pattern with seven loops pulled up onto the shoulder; the indentation of the tool on the shoulder is often evident; base of handle, 1.5 cm. wide, formed of cobalt blue flattened trail is preserved on shoulder; the body has had glass added to the lower section, it was tooled to form a short spreading stem with a rounded pad-shaped foot.
Provenance

Source Ray Winfield Smith (American, 1897-1982) - 1970-02-26

Former Collection Norton Collection