Amphoriskos
Date: Late 19th or first decade of 20th century
Dimensions:
H: 4 1/16 in. (10.4 cm); Diam: 1 3/16 in. (3 cm); Max Body Diam: 1 15/16 in. (4.9 cm)
Medium: Expanded mold blown; trailed and marvered decoration; applied handles.
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1923.2396
DescriptionAmphoriskos. Cobalt-blue ground with opaque yellow, opaque celadon-green, and opaque red decoration. Outsplayed, inward-sloping rim; short cylindrical neck; obtuse-angled junction with rounded shoulder; ovoid body; wide, convex pointed bottom; rounded base-knob, convex on the underside. Two cobalt-blue right-angled strap handles extend from the shoulder to the middle of the neck, rising vertically to the middle of the neck. An opaque yellow thread, partly marvered, attached at the edge of the rim; opaque red, opaque celadon-green, and opaque yellow threads, all marvered, begun at the middle of the body and tooled in alternating bands into a wavelike pattern to the lower body; opaque yellow threads also applied to the vertical segments of the handles.
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