Balsamarium

MS5594

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS5594
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Section Mediterranean
Materials Glass
Description

Olive green glass coated in dirt, no iridescence or incrustation. Concave disk base with rounded edge. Pinched where base attaches to cylindrical body. Rim flares out and is rolled inward to round edge. 4 thick glass threads/ribbons ripple down from rim to near bottom of body; broken in places. Ribbons placed like 4 corners of a square.

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

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