AN EGYPTIAN CORE-FORMED GLASS AMPHORISKOS

Said to have been made solely for the royal court, core-formed glass vessels were luxury objects, which became popular from the reigns of Amenhotep III and his son Akhenaten. The rich blues and blue-greens and lustrous surfaces, imitated in glass the colours and appearance of gemstones, especially turquoise and lapis lazuli. For a similar vessel with a raised foot see acc. no. 26.7.1177 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.