Unguent Bottle (Two-Handled Jar)
Date: late 19th-early 20th century
Dimensions:
Glass Dimensions: 4 7/8 × 2 × 1 1/8 in. (12.4 × 5.1 × 2.9 cm)
Medium: glass
Place of Origin: possibly Spain
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1970.6
DescriptionBlown with dragged and marvered thread decoration.
Two-handled jar. Pale green ground streaked with blue, with opaque white and opaque yellow (at times appearing pale opaque green) decoration. Moderately broad tubular rim, folded outward, then inward, with a rounded edge; short cylindrical neck; rounded shoulder; tall, narrow ovoid body, with pronounced downward taper; almost pointed bottom; uneven pale green padbase with an irregular edge, concave on its underside.
Two short, vertical pale green strap handles extend from the shoulder to the upper part of the neck, where each is tooled into a ring.
An opaque white thread and an opaque yellow thread, both marvered, begun on the neck and wound spirally, at first in horizontal lines over the shoulder, then tooled into a deep festoon pattern to below the middle of the body; below this, another opaque white and another opaque yellow thread, both marvered, are begun and tooled first into festoons, then into a ray pattern extending to the padbase.
Two-handled jar. Pale green ground streaked with blue, with opaque white and opaque yellow (at times appearing pale opaque green) decoration. Moderately broad tubular rim, folded outward, then inward, with a rounded edge; short cylindrical neck; rounded shoulder; tall, narrow ovoid body, with pronounced downward taper; almost pointed bottom; uneven pale green padbase with an irregular edge, concave on its underside.
Two short, vertical pale green strap handles extend from the shoulder to the upper part of the neck, where each is tooled into a ring.
An opaque white thread and an opaque yellow thread, both marvered, begun on the neck and wound spirally, at first in horizontal lines over the shoulder, then tooled into a deep festoon pattern to below the middle of the body; below this, another opaque white and another opaque yellow thread, both marvered, are begun and tooled first into festoons, then into a ray pattern extending to the padbase.
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