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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Glass, Room 131

Flask

c.1336 BC - c. 1213 BC (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown (maker)
Place of origin
Malkata (made)
El-Amarna (made)

Core-formed turquoise glass vessel in the shape of a double-handled amphora, with applied thread decoration in alternating blue and yellow, a band of striped white and blue around the rim, and separately applied handles consisting of triple rods in blue glass.


Object details

Categories
Glass
Africa
SCRAN
Object type
Flask
Materials and techniques
Core-formed glass with applied thread decoration
Glass
Core-Forming
Brief description
Glass flask of amphora shape, in turquoise decorated with alternating dark blue and yellow wavy lines and blue handles. Egypt (probably Malqata or el-Amarna), New Kingdom, Dynasty 18 or 19
Physical description
Core-formed turquoise glass vessel in the shape of a double-handled amphora, with applied thread decoration in alternating blue and yellow, a band of striped white and blue around the rim, and separately applied handles consisting of triple rods in blue glass.
Dimensions
  • Height: 12.7cm
  • Maximum width: 8.0cm
Styles
New Kingdom
Eighteenth Dynasty
Nineteenth Dynasty
Object history
The original accession registers for this object state that it is said to have come from a Greek tomb.

Purchased from John Webb.
Bibliographic references
  • P. Fossing, Glass Vessels Before Glass Blowing (Copenhagen, 1940: 15, Fig.7.
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Egypts Golden Age: The Art of Living in the New Kingdom 1558 - 1085 BC (Boston, 1983): 167 no. 185.
  • A. P. Kozloff and B.M. Bryan, Egypt's Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III and his World (Cleveland, 1992): 391-2 no. 99.
  • A. Nesbitt, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Glass Vessels in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1878): 6, Pl. 2
  • W. B. Honey, Victoria and Albert Museum - Glass: A Handbook for the Study of glass Vessels of All Periods and Countries & A Guide to the Museum Collection (London, 1946): 17
  • B. Nolte, Die Glassgefaesse im Alten Agypten (Berlin, 1968): 114 No. 9, Pl. 16
  • Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of the Art of Ancient Egypt (London, 1895): 107 No. 2, Pl. 2.13
Other number
8002 - Glass gallery number
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
1006-1868

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Record createdDecember 13, 1997
Record URL
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