Miniature Bottle

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Object Name: 
Miniature Bottle
Place Made: 
Egypt
Accession Number: 
81.1.37
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 3.4 cm; Rim Diam: about 1.8 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 800-899
Credit Line: 
Gift of the American Research Center in Egypt
Primary Description: 
Almost colorless glass, but with greenish tinge, small bubbles and stones; blown. Bottle wityh roughly hemispherical body. Rim outsplayed, with irregular rounded lip; neck cylindrical; shoulder curves down and out, and merges with wall, which curves in at bottom; base plain, with concave underside; no pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
American Research Center in Egypt, Source
1981-12-29
Category: 
Islamic
Color: 
Colorless, greenish tinge
colorless
Technique: 
blown, tooled

Publications (1)

Islamic Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass Volume Two (2014) illustrated, p. 65-66, #707; BIB# 113723