Fragment of Pitcher

Object Name: 
Fragment of Pitcher

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Object Name: 
Fragment of Pitcher
Place Made: 
Egypt
Accession Number: 
58.1.15
Dimensions: 
Overall L: 4 cm; Rim Diam: 2.9 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1400-1360 BCE
Primary Description: 
Translucent deep blue glass, bubbly with some stone, trails of turquoise, opaque white and yellow glass; core-formed, trail-decorated and tooled. Fragment preserves rim and long neck of a one-handled jug or pitcher, rounded rim tapers down into long cylindrical neck with repeated trail decoration of yellow, turquoise and white dragged up toward rim eight times, scar of blue glass where handle was once attached.

More Info

Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
Blumka, Leopold, Source
1958-06-05
Color: 
Translucent deep blue
Technique: 
core-formed, trail-decorated and tooled
core-forming
Inscription: 
L.27.620.14
label
: 
inside of vessel sticker

Publications (1)

Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1979) illustrated, p. 66, #41, pl. 7; BIB# 29547