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Ancient Art
Public domain

Beaker

4th century A.D.

Greenish transparent glass

3 1/4 in. (8.2 cm)
The Anna Rosalie Mansfield Collection
1930.426
Status: 
By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Culture: 
Roman, Eastern Mediterranean or Egyptian(?)
Period: 
Roman
Classification: 
Containers - Glass
Provenance: 

T. B. Clark, 1898; Mansfield Collection no. 27.

Bibliography: 

Susan B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1980), 96, 98, no. 259, ill.

Christie’s London, London, Ancient Glass from the Shlomo Moussaieff Collection, sale cat. (July 6, 2016), 67, ill.

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