English: 3rd–4th century A.D.
Free-blown glass with gilding, transparent dark violet-brown manganese with gold leaf
15 × 4.8 cm (5 7/8 × 1 3/4 in.) diameter of mouth
Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Bequest of Mrs. William H. Moore
1955.6.205
Culture:
Roman, Eastern Mediterranean, Syrian (?)
Period:
Roman or Byzantine
Classification:
Containers - Glass
Status:
Not on view
Provenance:
Said to be from Damascus; von Gans Collection; Galerie Bachstitz, The Hague; Fahim Kouchakji.
Bibliography:
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. 570, plate V.
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. 617.
Susan B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1980), 95–96, no. 257, ill.
Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 269, ill.
Richard A. Grossmann, Ancient Glass: A Guide to the Yale Collection (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2002), 19, fig. 18.
Axel von Saldern, Antikes Glas (Munich: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2004), 455, pl. 57, fig. 357.