Unguent Bottle (Krateriskos)
Unguent Bottle (Krateriskos)
Place of OriginEgypt
DateNew Kingdom, Eighteenth Dynasty, about 1412-1350 BCE
DimensionsH: 4 in. (10.2 cm); Rim Diam: 1 7/8 in. (4.85 cm); Diam: 2 9/16 in. (6.5 cm); Base Diam: 1 5/8 in. (4.2 cm)
MediumCore-formed; applied handles and foot; applied marvered and unmarvered threads.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1967.1
Not on View
DescriptionThree-handled krateriskos. Dark blue ground with opaque white, opaque yellow (appearing orangish), and opaque turquoise-blue decoration. Short horizontal rim with rounded edge; tall cylindrical neck with slight downward taper; almost right-angled junction with rounded shoulder; squat, bulbous body; tall outsplayed dark blue foot, concave on its underside, with a rounded edge. At equidistant intervals just below the shoulder, three vertical dark blue loop handles. An opaque white thread and an opaque yellow thread, both marvered, attached at the edge of the rim and tooled into an uneven, shallow zigzag pattern over the entire neck; another opaque white thread and another opaque yellow thread, both marvered, begun on the shoulder and tooled into a close-set, shallow festoon pattern on the body; mingling with the white and yellow threads on the neck and body are occasional threads of opaque turquoise blue, also marvered and tooled into a zigzag or festoon pattern; an opaque turquoise-blue thread, unmarvered, is attached at the edge of the foot. Pronounced vertical depressions on the body caused by the tooling of the festoons.
Published ReferencesRustafjaell, Robert de, Catalogue of the Remaining Part of the Valuable Collection of Egyptian Antiquities Formed, Sotheby's, London, January 20-24, 1913, lot 977, pl. 53.
Sangiorgi, Giorgio, Collezione de vetri antichi dalle origini al V secolo D.C. ordinati e descritti da Giorgio Sangiorgi con prefazione di W. Froehner, Rome, 1914, no. 3, pls. 2 and 3.
Nolte, Birgit, Die Glasgefasse im alten Aegypten, Munchner Aegyptologische Studien, no. 14, Berlin, 1968, pp. 82-83 and 85086, no. 17, pl. 4.
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. 7, p. 60, drawing, p. 397.
Exhibition HistoryUniversity of Missouri Museum, Columbia, Missouri. 1986-87.18th Dynasty, about 1400-1350 BCE
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, probably the reigns of Amenhotep III - Akhenaten, about 1400 to 1350 BCE
Mid 4th-early 3rd BCE
Late 4th-early 3rd BCE
Mid-fourteenth to late thirteenth century BCE
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, About 1412-1350 BCE
Late 6th through 5th century BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd century BCE
Mid-4th to early 3rd century BCE
late 19th-early 20th century
1400-1350 BCE
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