Free-Blown Bottle with Thread Decoration
Date: 7th-8th century A.D.
Medium: Glass
Dimensions:
h. 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm); rim: diam. 1 11/16 in. (4.3 cm); max: diam. 2 5/8 in. (6.6 cm)
Credit Line: Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection
Object number: 86.138.385
Provenance: By purchase, the Stark family, Orange, Texas, between 1927 and 1929; by bequest, the Nelda C. and H. J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, 1965; by purchase, the San Antonio Museum of Art with funding from Mr. and Mrs. Robert Willson, 1986
Label Text
Group label, with bottle 86.138.404:
The general shape of the smaller bottle is a precursor of the narrow-necked perfume sprinklers of the Islamic period. It is decorated with pinched bands of glass threads. On the larger bottle (86.138.385), the applied threads have been pulled into star and disk motifs. (2002)
The general shape of the smaller bottle is a precursor of the narrow-necked perfume sprinklers of the Islamic period. It is decorated with pinched bands of glass threads. On the larger bottle (86.138.385), the applied threads have been pulled into star and disk motifs. (2002)
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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