Unguent Bottle (Alabastron)
Unguent Bottle (Alabastron)
Artist
Dominick Labino
(American, 1910-1987)
Date1965
DimensionsH: 4 1/32 in. (10.2 cm); Diam: 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm)
MediumGlass; core-formed, applied rim-disk and handles, applied marvered threads.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Dominick Labino, Grand Rapids, Ohio
Object number
1966.123
Not on View
DescriptionOpaque medium blue ground with a few streaks of opaque red, and with opaque white decoration. Broad, uneven 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 medium blue ring handles with protruding lower ends. A marvered opaque white thread begun on the neck and wound spirally, at first in a few horizontal lines, then tooled into an irregular festoon pattern. No pontil mark.
Published ReferencesDominick Labino, "The Egyptian Sand-Core Technique: A New Interpretation," Journal of Glass Studies, vol. 8, 1966, p. 124-127, repr. fig. 5, second from left.
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. 707.
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. 812, no. 1387.
Late 6th -early 5th century BCE
Mid-4th through early third centuries BCE
3rd through 2nd century BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
5th century BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd centuries BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
3rd century BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
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