Stacking Weight

Dutch, Europe

  • Titles Stacking Weight (Descriptive)
  • Medium brass
  • Dimensions 1/2 x 1 1/8 in. Diam. (1.3 x 2.9 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Ellen and Fred Elsas, 1986.761.1
  • Work Type stacking weight
  • Classification Tools & Equipment

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Tall unguentarium, or tear vase or bottle, in the form of a candlestick with a bulbous base and long neck with flared lip of blown glass with iridescent shades of green, gold and purple.
Small, roundish bottle, or jar, of blown bluish-green, slightly translucent and iridescent glass with two curved handles and a thin bail handle of a different green glass, with narrow neck, the body decorated with applied, thin glass bands above a thicker, band of darker blue-green glass applied in a zig-zag pattern.