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Primary Description:
Cosmetic Bottle (Amphoriskos). Opaque blue, opaque yellow, opaque white, translucent greenish, translucent greenish-blue glass; core-formed, trail-decorated, tooled. Bubbly with thin iridescent film, some surface pitting. Rounded rim flared out from long cylindrical neck, diagonal tooling marks on rim exterior; vessel wall spreads out into broad shoulder bending in to form an elongated inverted ovoid body; neck and shoulder wound with heavy trail of yellow glass, which is also repeated at the base; central area wound more carefully with thin trails of yellow alternating with opaque white trails; entire surface has been marvered but only central register has had the trails pulled up to the rim; two heavy trails of lighter yellow green glass have been applied at the shoulder and pulled up beneath the rim, on the neck, a blob has also been applied to the base to form a large rounded button.
Exhibitions (3)

The Fragrant Past: Perfumes of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar
Venue(s)
Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology 1989-04-05 through 1989-06-25

Glass from the Ancient World
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1957-06-04 through 1957-09-15

Verres Antiques de la Collection R.W. Smith
Venue(s)
Musee de Mariemont 1954 through 1954
Publications (47)
Ancient and Islamic Glass: Selections from the Corning Museum of Glass (2019)
illustrated, pp. 46-47;
Zhongguo gu dai bo li qi min = Chinese ancient glass (2018)
illustrated, p. 78 (fig. 3-19);
The Art Museum (2017)
illustrated, room 57 (fig. 7);
Fragiles y asombrosos (2014-05)
illustrated, p. 38;
Historia del Vidrio: desarrollo formal, technologico y cientifico (2012)
illustrated, Fig. 9, p. 23;
BIB# 139172
Casting Poetic Sentiment: Glass Art Creation Methodology (2008)
illustrated, p. 8, fig. 2;
BIB# 107146
30,000 Years of Art: The Story of Human Creativity Across Space and Time (2007)
illustrated, p. 294;
BIB# 103866
Through Glass Objects and Poems (Atraves Do Vidro: Objetos E Poemas) (2006)
illustrated, p. 29;
BIB# 106729
Glass: A Pocket Dictionary of Terms Commonly Used to Describe Glass and Glassmaking (2006)
illustrated, p. 9;
BIB# 96551
Modern Ceramic Engineering: Properties, Processing, and Use in Design (2006)
illustrated, p. 14 (fig. 2.3);
BIB# 166801
The Corning Museum of Glass, A Guide to the Collections (2001) (2001)
illustrated, p. 15;
BIB# 68214
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass: Checklist of the Exhibition (1999)
illustrated, p. 4;
BIB# 63967
Glass: A Pocket Dictionary of Terms Commonly Used to Describe Glass and Glassmaking (1993)
p. 7;
BIB# 35660
History of Glass Crafts (1990-07)
p. 44;
Masterpieces of Glass: A World History From The Corning Museum of Glass (1990)
illustrated, pp. 24-25, pl. 4;
BIB# 33819
World of the Bible (1986)
pl. XXIV;
Masterpieces of Glass: A World History from The Corning Museum of Glass (1980)
pp. 24-25, pl. 4;
BIB# 20953
Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1979)
illustrated, pp. 129-130, #268, pl. 17;
BIB# 29547
Glass from the Ancient World: The Ray Winfield Smith Collection (1957)
illustrated, pp. 28-29, #22;
BIB# 27315
Multimedia (1)

Core Forming
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