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Explore image in 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:
Susan B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1980), 140–41, no. A6, ill.
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.
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.
