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Footed Jar

Period New Kingdom Period (Ancient Egyptian, 1550–1070 BCE)

Dynasty Dynasty 18 (Ancient Egyptian, 1550–1295 BCE)

Place of OriginEgypt

Dateabout 1400-1350 BCE

Dimensions3 1/4 in. (8.2 cm)

Mediumcore-formed glass

ClassificationGlass

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

Object number

1948.16

Not on View

DescriptionTwo-handled krateriskos, with applied handles and foot. Applied marvered and unmarverd threads. Medium blue ground (appearing opaque), with opaque white, opaque yellow, and opaque turquoise-blue decoration. Short horizontal rim, sloping slightly outward, with a rounded edge; tall cylindrical neck, tapering downward; obtuse-angled junction with rounded shoulder; squat, bulbous body; moderately tall, outsplayed medium blue foot, concave on its underside, with a rounded edge. On opposite sides of the body, vestiges of two medium blue loop handles set diagonally. An unmarvered coil of twisted treads of opaque yellow, opaque white and medium blue attached at the edge of the rim; another opaque yellow and an opaque white threads, both marvered, begun on the neck and tooled first into an upright festoon pattern, then into regular festoon pattern; at the middle of the body, a wide opaque turquoise-blue thread, marvered, tooled into a festoon pattern, flanked above and below by single opaque white and yellow threads; the upper white thread is tooled into an upright festoon pattern, the lower yellow thread into a regular festoon pattern; an opaque yellow thread, unmarvered, is attached to the edge of the foot.

Published ReferencesFurniture and Objects of Art...Property of the Estate of the Late J.P. Morgan, Park-Bernet Galleries, New York, March 22-25, 1944, lot 30, p. 7, ill.

Neuberg, Frederic, Ancient Glass, Toronto, 1962.

A Guide to the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, 1966.

Rev. trans. of Antikes Glas, Darmstadt, 1962, fig. 5 top (incorrectly cited as being in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London).

Nolte, Birgit, Die Glasgefasse im alten Aegypten, Munchner Aegyptologische Studien, no. 14, Berlin, 1968, pp. 101-102 and 109, no. 34, pl. 15.

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. 9, p. 61, repr. (col) p. 41, drawing, p. 397.

Luckner, Kurt T. and Sandra E. Knudsen, "Early ancient glass in the Toledo Museum of Art," Minerva, vol. 1, no. 1, Jan. 1990, p. 33, fig. 1 (col.).

Page, Jutta-Annette, The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, 2006, p. 18, repr. (col.) 1B, p. 19.

Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art Masterworks, Toledo, 2009, p. 65, repr. (col.).

Peck, William H., Sandra E. Knudsen and Paula Reich, Egypt in Toledo: The Ancient Egyptian Collection at the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, 2011, p. 60-61, repr. (col.) p. 61.

Page, Jutta-Annette, Peter Morrin, and Robert Bell, Color Ignited: Glass 1962-2012, Toledo, OH, 2012, p. 22, fig. 1.

Exhibition HistoryCincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum; Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Mistress of the house, mistress of heaven: Women in ancient Egypt, 1996-97, no. 23 bb, p. 83, repr. (col.).

Chicago, The Museum of Science and Industry,The Glass Experience, March 13-September 1, 2008.

Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, The Egypt Experience: Secrets of the Tomb, October 29, 2010-January 8, 2012.

Comparative ReferencesSee also Nolte, B. and T.E. Haevernick, "Agyptische und griechische fruhe Glasgefasse," Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Universitat Rostock 16 Jahrgang Gesellschafts -- Und Sprachwissenschaftliche Reine, Heft 7/8, n.d. pl. 59, nos. 1 and 2 (close parallels to TMA 48.16, although they are Workshop I.).