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Ancient Art
Flask
5th–6th century A.D.
Free-blown glass with trailed handles, yellow
15.7 × 5.7 cm (6 3/16 × 2 1/4 in.)
Bequest of Florence Baiz Van Volkenburgh in memory of her husband, Thomas Sedgwick Van Volkenburgh, B.A. 1866
1940.289
Status:
Not on view
Culture:
Roman, Eastern Mediterranean, Syrian(?)
Classification:
Containers - Glass
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), 127–8, no. 343, ill.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
