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Ancient Art
Pseudo-Mosaic Glass Amphoriskos
late 19th–early 20th century
Dark blue and white glass
3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm)
Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Bequest of Mrs. William H. Moore
1955.6.35
Culture:
Italian, Venetian
Period:
Modern
Classification:
Containers - Glass
Provenance:
Purchased by Ada Small Moore in 1925 (11-5-1925 Kouchakji receipt)
Bibliography:
Gustavus A. Eisen, Glass: Its Origin, History, Chronology, Technic and Classification to the Sixteenth Century, 2 vols. (New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1927), vol. 1, p. 227, pl. 43.
Susan B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1980), 140–41, no. A6, ill.
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