Bottle with Tyche
Artist: Unknown
- Medium
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Mold-blown glass, transparent light purple with traces of yellow
- Dimensions
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16.51 × 4.45 × 5.72 cm (6 1/2 × 1 3/4 × 2 1/4 in.)
- Credit Line
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Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Bequest of Mrs. William H. Moore
- Accession Number
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1955.6.81
- Culture
- Period
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Roman
- Classification
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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 records is ongoing.
Provenance
Provenance
Ex. coll. Kouchakji Freres. 6-26-1925 Kouchakji receipt ("Sidonian Flask")Bibliography
- Christie's London, London, Ancient Glass from the Shlomo Moussaieff Collection, sale cat. (July 6, 2016), 59, ill.
- Axel von Saldern, Antikes Glas (Munich: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2004), 292.
- Richard A. Grossmann, Ancient Glass: A Guide to the Yale Collection (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2002), 33, Section on Glass and Good Fortune, with bronze figurine of Tyche, fig. 33.
- "Catalogue of the Exhibition 'An Obsession with Fortune: Tyche in Greek and Roman Art'," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1994): 115, no. 49, fig. 31.
- Mark D. Stansbury-O'Donnell, "Reflections of the Tyche of Antioch in Literary Sources and on Coins," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1994): 54, no. 49, fig. 31.
- Susan B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1980), 102–03, no. 276, 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. 333, pl. 82.
Object copyright
Additional information
Object/Work type
bottles
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