Balsamarium

MS5595

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS5595
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Section Mediterranean
Materials Glass
Description

Pale greenish blue glass with encrustation and iridescence. Deep concave foot. Pontil mark on base. Bulbous body with tapering long neck. Rim flares dramatically from neck and is folded inward to round edge. Remains of 2 handles and a horizontal thread of same glass just under rim. Half of rim broken off.

Height 11 cm
Credit Line Gift of Miss Lydia T. Morris, 1916
Other Number GL15 (ancient glass project) - Other Number

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