Footed Jar
Date: about 1400-1350 BCE
Dimensions:
3 1/4 in. (8.2 cm)
Medium: core-formed glass
Place of Origin: Egypt
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1948.16
DescriptionTwo-handled krateriskos, with applied handles and foot. Applied marvered and unmarverd threads. Medium blue ground (appearing opaque), with opaque white, opaque yellow, and opaque turquoise-blue decoration. Short horizontal rim, sloping slightly outward, with a rounded edge; tall cylindrical neck, tapering downward; obtuse-angled junction with rounded shoulder; squat, bulbous body; moderately tall, outsplayed medium blue foot, concave on its underside, with a rounded edge. On opposite sides of the body, vestiges of two medium blue loop handles set diagonally. An unmarvered coil of twisted treads of opaque yellow, opaque white and medium blue attached at the edge of the rim; another opaque yellow and an opaque white threads, both marvered, begun on the neck and tooled first into an upright festoon pattern, then into regular festoon pattern; at the middle of the body, a wide opaque turquoise-blue thread, marvered, tooled into a festoon pattern, flanked above and below by single opaque white and yellow threads; the upper white thread is tooled into an upright festoon pattern, the lower yellow thread into a regular festoon pattern; an opaque yellow thread, unmarvered, is attached to the edge of the foot.
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