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The Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) (r) is a structured vocabulary for generic concepts related to art and architecture. It was developed by The Getty Research Institute to help research institutions become consistent in the terminology they use.Learn More
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Colorless, with gilded colorless, opaque white, and opaque light blue trails. Blown; applied. Bottle with pear-shaped body. Rim plain, with slightly irregular rounded lip; neck narrow, tapering and then expanding to merge with body; upper wall is straight and, below mid-point, curves down and in; base consists of hollow foot ring made by folding; pontil mark. Decorated on neck and wall. At narrowest part of neck, horizontal blue trail wound in two revolutions. On wall, continuous frieze with no upper border but lower border, near foot, consisting of horizontal white trail wound one and one-quarter times around body. Frieze contains four principal motifs: ivy leaves shown in outline with long, curving stalks; two blue motifs alternate with two white ones. All outlines are notched. Between tips of each pair of leaves and above each stalk, one small gilded colorless tendril consisting of two opposed spirals emerging from short stem.
Publications (4)
Ancient and Islamic Glass: Selections from the Corning Museum of Glass (2019)
illustrated, pp. 72-73;
Masters of Studio Glass: Joel Philip Myers and Steven I. Weinberg (2007)
illustrated, p. 11, bottom left;
BIB# AI75855
Romische ausgrabungen Sammlung Ernst Reimbold, Koln und Anderer Besitz (1919)
illustrated, p. 18, no. 520, tafel 1;
BIB# 9909