Cosmetic Jar

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

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

Place of OriginEgypt

Dateabout 1400-1225 BCE

DimensionsH: 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm)

Mediumcore-formed glass

ClassificationGlass

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

Object number

1951.405

Not on View

DescriptionCore formed glass with applied handles and foot, and applied marvered and unmarvered threads.

Published ReferencesRiefstahl, Rudolf M., "Ancient and Near Eastern Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News 4, no. 2, 1961, p. 27, ill.

Neuburg, Frederic, Ancient Glass, Toronto, 1962, rev. trans. of Antikes Glas, Darmstadt fig. 6.

Riefstahl, Rudolf M., "The Complexities of Ancient Glass," Apollo 86, 1967, p. 428, fig. 1.

Nolte, Birgit, Die Glasgefasse im alten Aegypten, Muncher Aegyptologische Studien, no. 14, Berlin, 1968, pp.; 101-104, no. 6, pl. 12.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, p. 16, ill.

Jones, Dorothy-Lee, "The Toledo Museum's New Glass Gallery," The Glass Club Bulletin, no. 93/94, Mar-June 1970, p. 10, repr.

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

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

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

Goldstein in Egypt's Golden Age 1982, p. 164, no. 177.

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, Hudson Hills Press in Association with the Toledo Museum of Art, New York, 1989, cat. no. 5, p. 59-60, repr. (col.) p. 40, drawing, p. 397.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Treasures, Toledo, 1995, p. 36 repr. (col.)

"Glassmaking 5000 B.C. -- present," ARTaFacts Magazine, vol. 9, no. 2, Oct/Nov 2005, repr. (col.) p.[2].

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

Exhibition HistoryBoston, Museum of Fine Arts; Houston, Houston Museum of Natural Science; Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, Egypt's Golden Age: The Art of Living in the New Kingdom 1558-1085 -- B.C., no. 117, p. 164, repr.

Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum; Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Mistress of the House, Mistress of Heaven: Women in Ancient Egypt, 1996-97, no. 23z, p. 83, repr. (col.).