Pseudo-Mosaic Glass Bottle | Yale University Art Gallery

1st century A.D.

Medium: Translucent royal blue and white glass
Dimensions: 4 5/16 in. (11 cm)
Credit Line: Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Bequest of Mrs. William H. Moore
Accession Number: 1955.6.36
Culture: Roman, Eastern Mediterranean, Syrian
Period: Roman
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

The Kouchakji Frères Collection Rare Ancient Faiences and Antique Glass and Bronzes Beautiful Persian Miniatures and Rugs, New York, March 8–9, 1918, lot 280

Bibliography

Susan B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1980), 27, no. 70, 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. 229, pl. 44

American Art Association, New York, The Kouchakji Frères Collection Rare Ancient Faiences and Antique Glass and Bronzes Beautiful Persian Miniatures and Rugs, sale cat. (February 13–14, 1920), n.p., lot 280

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

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