Jar with Wishbone Handle

Jar with Wishbone Handle

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Object Name: 
Jar with Wishbone Handle
Department
Ancient
Category
Islamic
Place Made: 
Date: 
about 1200-1299
Color
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purple
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white
Technique
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blow molding
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applied decoration
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marvering
Material
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glass
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 10.1 cm, Diam (max): 7.6 cm
Accession Number: 
64.1.2
Location: 
On Display
Description
Jar with Wishbone Handle. Translucent purple, with opaque white trail. Blown in dip mold; applied and marvered. Rim outsplayed, horizontal, and with rounded lip; wall is straight and splayed, curving in at bottom; base plain, with low kick; pontil mark circular (D. 1.1 cm). Handle consists of purple trail dropped onto top of rim, drawn up, over mouth, and down, and attached to top of rim; mid-point of handle pinched and pulled upward, so that handle has ogival form; ends of handle pinched and pulled upward as semi-circular projections. Twenty vertical ribs extend from center of base to shortly below rim. Applied decoration: marvered trail dropped onto base, wound spirally 17 times around base and wall, ending just below top of ribs; each circuit has wavy effect created when parison was inserted in dip mold.
Provenance
Safani Gallery, Source
1964-01-30
L'Orient de Saladin
Venue(s)
Institut du Monde Arabe
Glass from the Ancient World: So Diverse a Unity
Venue(s)
University of Michigan 1991-04-05 through 1991-05-05
 
L'Orient de Saladin (2001) illustrated, p. 187, Fig. 194; BIB# 68555
Glass from the Ancient World: So Diverse a Unity (1991) p. 77, no.51; BIB# 34381

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