Lentoid Flask

MS5613

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS5613
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Section Mediterranean
Materials Glass
Description

Pale green glass, a little iridescent and decomposition outside, incrusted inside. Flat pontil mark on round bottom. Body a flattened oval. A pinch where body and cylindrical neck meet. A greenish blue thread is wrapped 1/3 of the way up the neck from pinch. On top of thread rests the tops of 2 right angle handles that connect with shoulders of vessel. Rim flares dramatically and has a thread of greenish-blue around its outside.

Height 16.9 cm
Credit Line Gift of Miss Lydia T. Morris, 1916
Other Number GL13 (ancient glass project) - Other Number

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