Bottle

LIV.2012.3.474

Information

Green glass flask. The flask has a globular body, long neck and a indentated base. Decoration is of nine vertical indentations around the body and a single trail of glass at the base of the neck which has remnant of a blue colour. Purchased from Mr E. E. Sellar in 1964, inherited from his father who worked on the construction of the first dam across the Nile (the Aswan low dam) built between 1898 and 1902. CONDITION NOTE 1999: Iridescent, concretions, surface dirt, worn.