Hexagonal Bottle with Plant Motifs | Yale University Art Gallery

1st century A.D.

Medium: Mold-blown glass, transparent dark blue
Dimensions: 3 5/8 × 1 9/16 in. (9.2 × 4 cm)
Diameter of mouth: 1 1/16 in. (2.7 cm)
Diameter of foot: 1 1/4 in. (3.1 cm)
Credit Line: Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Bequest of Mrs. William H. Moore
Accession Number: 1955.6.80
Culture: Eastern Mediterranean, Syrian
Period: Roman
Classification: Containers
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Bibliography

Christie's London, London, Ancient Glass from the Shlomo Moussaieff Collection, sale cat. (July 6, 2016), 53, no. 261, ill

E Marianne Stern, Roman Mold-Blown Glass (Toledo: Toledo Museum of Art, 1995), 157

Susan B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1980), 51, no. 129, ill

Susan H. Auth, Ancient Glass at the Newark Museum: From the Eugene Schaefer Collection of Antiquities (Newark, N.J.: Newark Museum, 1976), 66, no. 60

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. 331, pl. 81a

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