Pair of Bottles with Egyptian Sand
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Date1875
Place MadeEgypt, Middle East
MediumEngraved glass, sand, cork
Dimensions19.3 cm (7 5/8 in.)
ClassificationsVessels
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberC11s15.1-2
eMuseum ID722797
EmbARK ObjectID15125
TMS Source ID3736
Last Updated8/14/24
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Not on viewWeb CommentarySand collected in these bottles reminded Isabella Stewart Gardner of a profoundly moving experience in Egypt. Between 1874 and 1875, she travelled by boat along the Nile and recorded events from the trip in her travel journal. She describes lying alone in the sand near the Pyramids at Gizeh, where “the solemnity and mystery took possession and my heart went out to the Sphinx.”
BibliographyNotesGilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 65.
Nathaniel Silver and Diana Seave Greenwald. Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life (Boston, 2022), p. 49, fig. 21.
Diana Seave Greenwald. "Creating Rapture: Assemblage & Museum Making" in Diana Seave Greenwald (ed.). Betye Saar: Heart of a Wonderer. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2023), p. 31, fig. 9.
Nathaniel Silver and Diana Seave Greenwald. Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life (Boston, 2022), p. 49, fig. 21.
Diana Seave Greenwald. "Creating Rapture: Assemblage & Museum Making" in Diana Seave Greenwald (ed.). Betye Saar: Heart of a Wonderer. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2023), p. 31, fig. 9.
ProvenanceNotesAcquired and assembled by Isabella Stewart Gardner on her trip to Egypt in 1875.
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