Balsamarium
MS4971
From: Syro-Palestine
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4971 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Syro-Palestine |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Glass |
| Technique | Blown |
| Description | Purple glass vessel with some iridescence. Footed base. Vertical foot with rounded edges, deeply concave with pontil mark on bottom of vessel. Body bulbous at bottom, but 1/3 up is pinched slightly, and narrows to form a tapered neck. Rim is wide and flares out. Edge of rim rounded by folding over. Decorated by a thread of same colored glass which forms a zigzag between neck and rim. Thread ends by wrapping twice around neck. |
| Height | 10.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Fr. Vester and Company, American Colony Store, Jerusalem, 1913 |
| Other Number | GL15 (ancient glass project) - Other Number | 2550 - Other Number |
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