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Ancient Art
Explore image in Tyche Bottle
2nd–3rd century A.D.
Mold-blown glass, pale amber
Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Bequest of Mrs. William H. Moore
1955.6.274
Culture:
Roman, Eastern Mediterranean
Period:
Roman
Classification:
Containers - Glass
Provenance:
said to have been found near Homs, Syria;Khayat, 1912.
Bibliography:
“Catalogue of the Exhibition ‘An Obsession with Fortune: Tyche in Greek and Roman Art’,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1994): 115, no. 50.
Susan B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1980), 103–4, no. 277, ill.
Axel von Saldern, Antikes Glas (Munich: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2004), 292.
Christie’s London, London, Ancient Glass from the Shlomo Moussaieff Collection, sale cat. (July 6, 2016), 59, ill.
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.
