Unguent Bottle (Stamnos)

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Unguent Bottle (Stamnos)

Place of Originpossibly Spain

Datelate 19th-early 20th century

DimensionsGlass Dimensions: 4 1/8 × 2 3/8 × 3 7/16 in. (10.5 × 6 × 8.7 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

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

Object number

1970.5

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DescriptionBlown with dragged and marvered thread decoration. Stamnos. Cobalt-blue ground (appearing black), with opaque white and opaque yellow (appearing pale green) decoration. Moderately broad, outsplayed rim with rounded edge; tall cylindrical neck with slight bulge at its center; almost right-angled shoulder; globular body; convex bottom; cobalt-blue padbase, outsplayed with rounded edge, concave on its underside. Two cobalt-blue vertical right-angled handles extend from the shoulder to the upper part of the neck; each handle formed by pincering together one vertical and one horizontal section. A marvered opaque white thread attached vertically on the lower neck, then wound spirally in horizontal lines over the shoulder, where it is tooled into a wide festoon pattern to the middle of the body; below this, a marvered opaque white thread wound horizontally around the body; an opaque yellow thread, marvered, is also attached at the shoulder and wound spirally at first in horizontal lines, then tooled into a festoon pattern, mingling with the white thread; below this, another marvered opaque yellow thread begun and tooled into a broad festoon pattern, then into one or two rows of zigzags.

Published ReferencesGrose, 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. 704, pp. 391-392.