Double Head Flask | Yale University Art Gallery

2nd century A.D.

Not on view

Medium: Mold-blown glass, pale green
Dimensions: 8.7 × 5.3 cm (3 7/16 × 2 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Florence Baiz van Volkenburgh in memory of her husband Thomas Sedgwick van Volkenburgh, B.A. 1866
Accession Number: 1940.270
Culture: Roman, Eastern Mediterranean
Period: Roman
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Florence Baiz van Volkenburgh (died 1940), New York, NY; bequest in 1940 to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Christie's London, London, Ancient Glass from the Shlomo Moussaieff Collection, sale cat. (July 6, 2016), 57, 60, ill.

Susan B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1980), 72–3, no. 189, ill.

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

flasks (bottles)

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