Candlestick Unguentarium | Yale University Art Gallery

2nd–3rd century A.D.

Medium: Greenish glass
Dimensions: diam of base: 6 15/16 × 2 1/4 in. (17.7 × 5.7 cm)
diam of mouth: 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm)
Credit Line: Bequest of Florence Baiz van Volkenburgh in memory of her husband Thomas Sedgwick van Volkenburgh, B.A. 1866
Accession Number: 1940.273
Culture: Roman, Eastern Mediterranean, Syrian
Period: Roman
Classification: Lighting Devices
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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

Susan B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1980), 64–5, no. 160, ill

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Object/Work type

candlesticks

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