Unguent Bottle (Alabastron)

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Unguent Bottle (Alabastron)

Artist Dominick Labino (American, 1910-1987)

Date1965

DimensionsH: 4 7/16 in. (11.2 cm); Diam: 1 5/16 in. (3.4 cm)

MediumGlass; core-formed, applied rim-disk and handles, applied marvered threads.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Dominick Labino, Grand Rapids, Ohio

Object number

1966.124

Not on View

DescriptionOpaque white ground with cobalt-blue decoration. Broad, horizontal rim-disk with rounded edge; short cylindrical neck; straight-sided cylindrical body; convex bottom. On the upper part of the body, two vertical opaque white handles. A marvered cobalt-blue thread attached at the edge of the rim-disk; another marvered cobalt-blue thread begun on the underside of the rim-disk and wound horizontally to the top of the handles; below this, another marvered cobalt-blue thread attached to the lower part of the body and tooled into a widely spaced feather pattern; another marvered cobalt-blue thread wound horizontally around the lower part of the body.

Published ReferencesLabino, Dominick, "The Egyptian Sand-Core Technique, a New Interpretation," Journal of Glass Studies 8, p. 127, fig. 5.

Grose, David F., The Toledo Museum of Art: 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, repr. p. 392, no. 706.

Wilson, Kenneth M., American Glass, 1760-1930: The Toledo Museum of Art, New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, [Lanham, Md.]: National Book Network [distributor], c1994; 2 v. (879 p.): ill. (some col.); 32 cm., 1994, p. 813, no. 1388.