Unguent Bottle (Two-Handled Jar)

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Unguent Bottle (Two-Handled Jar)

Place of Originpossibly Spain

Datelate 19th-early 20th century

DimensionsGlass Dimensions: 4 7/8 × 2 × 1 1/8 in. (12.4 × 5.1 × 2.9 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1970.6

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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.

Published ReferencesCollection de feu Omar Pasha Sultan, le Caire, Paris, 1929, pl. 68 (middle shelf, left).

Grose, David F., Early Ancient Glass: Core-Formed, Rod-Formed, and Cast Vessels and Objects from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Roman Empire, 1600 B. C. to A. D. 50, New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, 1989, cat. no. 703, p. 391.