Angular glass unguentarium, c. 1350 AD
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This garnet red translucent glass unguentarium presents a four-sided tapered body, with a sharp shoulder yielding to a perfectly circular projecting roll, a short slightly tapered neck, and a round infolded rim paralleling the projecting roll. The piece is decorated from foot to rim with a feathered motif created with a continuous opaque white thread wound over 20 revolutions counterclockwise (the starting blob is clearly visible at the bottom). The thread was dragged alternately up and down, and then melted into the surface. The interior walls are smooth. This vessel still contains small quantities of a smooth dark, coalesced material which may be kohl. The foot is broken and missing. Eastern Mediterranean, fourteenth century AD. “Bottles of this shape, used for kohl, are common in collections and among the excavated material. A relatively large number of such vessels have come to light, for instance, in the excavations at al Tur in Sinai. One bottle still contained kohl and a bronze applicator” (Israeli 2003:382). Parallel Israel Museum, Dobkin Collection #77.12.294. Bibliography (for this item)Israeli, Yael2003 Ancient glass in the Israel Museum: the Eliahu Dobkin Collection and other gifts. The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. (382) |
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