Unguent Bottle (Krateriskos)

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Unguent Bottle (Krateriskos)

Place of OriginEgypt

Date18th Dynasty, about 1400-1350 BCE

DimensionsH: 3 3/16 in. (9.7 cm); Rim Diam: 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm); Body Diam: 2 7/16 in. (6.6 cm); Base Diam: 1 9/16 in. (4 cm)

MediumCore-formed; applied handles and foot; applied marvered and unmarvered threads.

ClassificationGlass

Object number

1935.55

Not on View

DescriptionTwo-handled krateriskos. Dark blue ground with opaque white, opaque yellow (appearing orange), and opaque turquoise-blue decoration. Short horizontal rim, uneven and sloping slightly outward, with a rounded edge; tall cylindrical neck, tapering downward; obtuse-angled junction with rounded shoulder; squat, bulbous body; tall, outsplayed dark blue foot, concave on its underside, with a rounded edge. On opposite sides of the shoulder, two vertical dark blue loop handles set at different heights on the body. An unmarvered coil composed of an opaque yellow thread wound spirally with a dark blue thread attached at the edge of the rim; another opaque white thread and an opaque yellow thread, both marvered, begun at the top of the neck and tooled into an uneven, shallow festoon pattern over the entire neck; another opaque yellow thread and an opaque white thread, both marvered, begun on the shoulder and tooled into a carelessly formed festoon pattern on the body; at the middle of the neck and on the shoulder, single marvered opaque turquoise-blue threads applied and tooled, respectively, into a shallow festoon and a taller festoon pattern; an opaque yellow marvered thread is attached at the edge of the foot.

Published ReferencesLabino, Dominick, Visual Art in Glass, Dubuque, Iowa, 1968, pp. 12-13, fig. 1.

Nolte, Birgit, Die Glasgefasse im alten Aegypten, Munchner Aegyptologische Studien, no. 14, Berlin, 1968, pp. 89-90 and 94, no. 21, pl. 8.

Gunther, Charles F., "How Glass is Made," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News 15, no. 1, 1972, p. 14.

"Art in Glass," The Glass Industry 51, July 1970, p. 315, ill.

D.-L. Jones, "The Toledo Museum's New Glass Gallery," The Glass Club 93/94, March-June 1970, p. 10, ill.

Wittmann, Otto, ed., The Toledo Museum of Art. A Guide to the Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1976, p. 7, fig. 6.

Grose, David F., "Ancient Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News 20, no. 3, 1978, pp. 68, 70-71, fig. 2.

Grose, David F., "The Origins of Early History of Glass, in The History of Glass, eds. Dan Klein and Ward Lloyd, London, 1984, p. 15, ill.

Grose, David F., "Innovation and Change in Ancient Technologies: The Anomalous Case of the Roman Glass Industry," High-technology Ceramics: Past, Present, and Future, pp. 65-79, Ceramics and Civilization, vol. 3, Westerville, Ohio, 1986, pp. 66-67, fig. 1.

Grose, David F., "Innovation and change in ancient technologies: The anomalous case of the Roman glass industry," in High-technology Ceramics, Westerville, OH, 1986, p. 1, fig. 67.

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