Opaque green glass with gilt rims. Greek lekythos shaped body with bowl shaped mouth surmounting bullet-shaped body on a circular trumpet-shaped foot with a medial ring, trimmed with gilt. Gilt rim at mouth.
vases
gilding
glass (material)
molding (forming)
Greek (ancient)
Glass
Molded
Gilded
Grecian
VASE
Original to Hamilton House (South Berwick, Me.),
Unknown
7.125 x 3.125 (HxW) (inches)
Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan
1949.577.2
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