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Ancient Art
Public domain

Jug with Trefoil Mouth

6th–4th century B.C.

Core-formed glass, dark blue with white dragged and marvered thread decoration

4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm)
The Anna Rosalie Mansfield Collection
1930.410
Status: 
By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Culture: 
Eastern Mediterranean or Egyptian(?)
Period: 
Late Period
Classification: 
Containers - Glass
Provenance: 

M.C. Borden sale, 1913.

Bibliography: 

Susan B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1980), 5, no. 7, ill.

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