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Vase, miniature
Bottle, dark blue glass, alabastron form with roughly cylindrical body, rounded base, narrow neck and flaring rim, to either side of the upper body twin ring handles with tails, the upper body decorated with trails of orange and turquoise glass which have been combed into a zig-zag pattern around the bottom, a trail of orange glass around the lip-rim. Half of the rim broken off and missing.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 50865
Creation/Production
Unknown
Date: 550-50 BCE
Acquisition
Gift, 7/12/1915
Given by Miss Talbot
Measurements
Height
(cm): 9.7
diam
(cm): 3.1
Height
(in): 3
diam
(in): 1
Techniques
core-formed
forming
Applied Art
manipulated
forming
Applied Art
trailed
decoration
Applied Art
combed
decoration
Applied Art
applied
decoration
Applied Art
Material
glass
metal oxides
Location
In store
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