Double head flask Maker: Unknown

3rd century A.D.

Ancient Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Mold-blown glass, pale green

Dimensions

3 7/16 × 1 5/8 × 1 11/16 in. (8.8 × 4.2 × 4.3 cm)

Credit Line

The Anna Rosalie Mansfield Collection

Accession Number

1930.413

Culture

Roman, Eastern Mediterranean, Syrian(?)

Period

Roman

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Said to have been found at Tel-el-Horus, Syria; with Khayat, 1911; Mansfield Collection no. 198.
Bibliography
  • Christie's London, London, Ancient Glass from the Shlomo Moussaieff Collection, sale cat. (July 6, 2016), 60, no. 275, ill
  • Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Roman in the Provinces: Art on the Periphery of Empire (Chestnut Hill, Mass.: McMullen Museum of Art, 2014), 294, no. 107, pl. 107
  • Susan B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1980), 73, no. 191, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

flasks (bottles)

Inscriptions

Base stamped with partially legible inscription (maker's mark?) after removal from mold; drawing reproduced in Matheson 1980 (see published references)

Signed

n.s.

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