Unguent Bottle
Unguent Bottle
DateLate nineteenth or first decade of twentieth century
DimensionsH: 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm); Diam: 1 3/16 in. (3 cm); Max Body Diam: 2 1/2 in. (6.3 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.170
Not on View
DescriptionColorless with yellowish tinge, with opaque white decoration. Broad, almost horizontal, uneven rim-disk with rounded edge; uneven cylindrical neck; almost right-angled junction with rounded shoulder; elongated top-shaped body; almost pointed bottom; rounded base-knob, flat on the underside. Two small, opaque white strap handles extend from the shoulder to the uppermost part of the neck, rising vertically to the top of the neck. Several widely spaced, unmarvered opaque white threads begun on the shoulder and carelessly tooled into a pattern reminiscent of ivy leaves; on the lower body, other unmarvered opaque white threads begun and tooled into a leaf-shaped pattern. Glass; free blown; trailed and marvered decoration; applied handles.
Published ReferencesRichter, G. M. A., "The Curtis Collection of Ancient Glass," Art in America 2, 1914, pp. 81-82, fig. 9.
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. 694, p. 388.
6th-5th century BCE
18th Dynasty (1550-1292 BCE), about 1412-1350 BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd century BCE
late 19th-early 20th century
late 19th-early 20th century
Late 6th through 5th century BCE
4th-3rd century BCE
about 2nd century BCE
Late 6th - 5th century BCE
Late 6th - 5th century BCE
Late 6th to 5th century BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd century BCE
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