| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 6772 | |
| Title: | PAINTED GLASS BOTTLE | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 6772 | |
| Description: | Blue glass bottle with rim rounded off unevenly, sloping shoulder, cylindrical bodycurving into the flat bottom. Pontil mark. | |
| Decoration: | Cold-painted decoration: rim and neck covered with gold; on shoulder, gold rays encircled by a double yellow band, gold and green scroll work, and a double green band. On the body three rows of three medallions, each with a border of two red lines within two green, and in the center a golden bird facing right or left. Plumage indicated by lines incised in the gold paint. Conventionalized gold branches with yellow-green leaves fill the field in each medallion, and golden scroll-work the spaces between the medallions, which vary considerably in size. At the bottom are two wide stripes, the upper green, the lower red. See Davidson 1952, Corinth 12, p. 88; cf. Lamm, op. cit, pls. 41:28 (color plate A,12); 42:3 (coloer plate A,9); 43:10-12, also pl. 109:2 (neck and rinm, gold on blue glass). See Duthuit and Volbach, Art Byzantin, pl. 42B for a cruder example said to be of the eighth-ninth centuries. Similar to MF-14465. | |
| Material: | Dark blue glass with very small bubbles. | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Parts of body missing. Slight milky weathering. | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 11th to mid-12th c. according to Corinth 12 | |
| Area: | Agora south central | |
| Context: | NB173 P170 | |
| Findspot Description: | Agora South Centre factory. | |
| Bibliography: | Davidson 1952, Corinth 12, cat. 750; AJA, XLIV, 1940, p. 320, figs. 20-22, no. 51 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Agora south central Image: bw 4460 Image: digital 2012 0770 Basket: NB173 P170 Notebook Page: NB 173, spread 94 (pp. 170 - 171) |
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