Unguent Bottle (Lekythos)
Date: Late 19th or first decade of 20th century
Dimensions:
H: 5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm); Diam: 1 5/16 in. (3.3 cm); Max Body Diam: 2 in. (5.1 cm)
Medium: glass
Place of Origin: Probably Murano, Italy
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1923.2403
DescriptionLekythos. Semitranslucent colorless ground with opaque light blue, opaque yellow, and opaque brown decoration. Vertical, off-set rim with rounded edge; tall funnel-shaped neck; obtuse-angled junction with rounded shoulder; almost cylindrical body with slight downward taper; closed cut-out foot, concave on its underside. Two colorless strap handles rise vertically from the shoulder to above the top of the neck.
A marvered opaque light blue thread attached at the edge of the rim; an opaque yellow thread and an opaque brown thread, mostly marvered, begun on the shoulder and tooled in alternating rows into widely spaced feather pattern to the bottom, where the opaque yellow thread is wound spirally to the center of the bottom. Glass; free-blown, trailed and marvered decoration, applied handles.
Pontil mark on the underside of the foot; tooling marks on the body.
A marvered opaque light blue thread attached at the edge of the rim; an opaque yellow thread and an opaque brown thread, mostly marvered, begun on the shoulder and tooled in alternating rows into widely spaced feather pattern to the bottom, where the opaque yellow thread is wound spirally to the center of the bottom. Glass; free-blown, trailed and marvered decoration, applied handles.
Pontil mark on the underside of the foot; tooling marks on the body.
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