jug with two handles / Glass

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 1969.03.0036
Object Name: jug with two handles
Lot: Ruthven, Dr. Alexander G.
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Glass vessels
Materials: Glass
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Width: ;
Height: 13.6;
Thickness: ;
Weight: ;165g
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Flask of transparent pale green glass. Intact. Many large bubbles and black impurities. Globular body mold-blown and expanded. Faint pattern of two rows of rings with inner dots. There are possible sunken dots between the two rows. Cylindrical neck rises from shoulder and flares out to funnel mouth with slightly uneven, plain, fire-polished rim. Annular bulge half way up neck. Bottom flattened and decorated with a concave rosette surrounded by a ring of concave dots. Two trailed handles attached over the curve of the shoulder, pinched at top and broken off carelessly at upper end.; Bibliography: Soucek #55; Comment: A 10th - 12th century flask from Iran (Glass from Islamic Lands #3.37a) suggests what a sharper, less inflated pattern might have looked like).
Verbatim Date: 10th-12th C AD
Verbatim Provenance: Egypt
Countermark: no
Exhibition Title: Islamic Art from the University of Michigan Collections; Fragments from the Past: Islamic Art from the Collection of the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology; President's House
Exhibition Curator: Soucek, Priscilla Parsons; Johnson, Dawn; Wilfong, Terry; Ratté, Christopher
Exhibition Year: 2014
Publication Title: Islamic Art from the University of Michigan Collections
Publication Author: Soucek, P.
Publication Year: 1978
Type Category: Artifact

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 1969.03.0036
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1969.03.0036/dsc_1555.jpg

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