Jug with Stylite Saint | Yale University Art Gallery

5th–7th century A.D.

Not on view

Medium: Mold-blown glass, pale green
Dimensions: 8 1/8 × 2 11/16 × 1 9/16 in. (20.6 × 6.8 × 3.9 cm)
width at handle: 3 11/16 in. (9.4 cm)
Credit Line: Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Bequest of Mrs. William H. Moore
Accession Number: 1955.6.148
Culture: Eastern Mediterranean, Syrian
Period: Byzantine
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Moore Collection no. 749.

Bibliography

Susan B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1980), 133–4, no. 355, ill.

Dorothy E. Miner, ed., Early Christian and Byzantine Art: An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, April 25–June 22, exh. cat. (Baltimore: The Walters Art Museum, 1947), 123, no. 619.

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. 483, pl. 120.

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Object/Work type

jugs

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