Saddleflask

MS5486

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS5486
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Section Mediterranean
Materials Glass
Technique Blown
Description

Pale green glass with bubbles, much iridescence amd encrustation. Saddle flask blown with pontil mark on flattened bottom. Two tubes connected into one piece with thin horizontal threads wrapped around body. Bodies tapers to shoulders and flare to rounded rim. Thicker, vertical threads attach rim to shoulders of tubes. Rim folded inward to round edge.

Height 11.7 cm
Credit Line Gift of Miss Lydia T. Morris, 1916
Other Number GL14 (Ancient Glass Project) - Other Number

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