bottle
Object NameBottle
Made FromGlass
Date800-999
Place MadeNear East; possibly Iran
Techniquemold-blown, wheel-cut
SizeOverall H: 9.9 cm; Body Diam: 6.5 cm
Accession Number75.1.4
Curatorial Area(s)
On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery
Physical DescriptionColorless glass with light green tinge, bubbly with some few blowing spirals, dull surface with thin iridescent film; mold-blown and wheel-cut. Short cylindrical neck spreads out into bell-shape body; ground rim; neck is panel cut into six rectangular facets with a horizontal wheel-cut groove below; small section below groove and shoulder are plain; from shoulder six diamond-shape patterns with small diamonds in center interlock with six complete elements around greatest diameter; top points of upper row cut off by mold; flattened base slightly kicked; pontil mark carefully ground into circular depression around which a mold-blown pattern of a rosette with eight circular depressions forming the petals interlocks with diamond pattern by means of six triangles which radiate from rosette, forming sunburst/or flower-like pattern.Provenance
Source
Faradj Anavian
- 1975-02-19
