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Ancient Art
Beaker
1st century A.D.
Free-blown glass with facet-cut decoration, nearly colorless with slight yellowish tinge
9.3 × 9.2 cm (3 11/16 × 3 5/8 in.)
Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Bequest of Mrs. William H. Moore
1955.6.133
Status:
Not on view
Culture:
Eastern Mediterranean, Roman
Period:
Roman
Classification:
Containers - Glass
Provenance:
Moore Collection no. 723.
Bibliography:
Susan B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1980), 35, no. 100, ill.
Richard A. Grossmann, Ancient Glass: A Guide to the Yale Collection (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2002), 16, fig. 15.
Gustavus A. Eisen, Glass: Its Origin, History, Chronology, Technic and Classification to the Sixteenth Century, 2 vols. (New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1927), vol. 2, p. 425, pl. 109.
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.