Applique from Beaker with Sea Creatures

Object Name: 
Applique from Beaker with Sea Creatures

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Object Name: 
Applique from Beaker with Sea Creatures
Place Made: 
Roman Empire
possibly Rhineland
Accession Number: 
76.1.143
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 1.7 cm, W: 4.5 cm, Th: 0.2 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
300-350
Credit Line: 
Gift of Carl Berkowitz and Derek Content
Primary Description: 
Colorless glass with pale greenish-yellow fracture; inflated (perhaps lamp-worked) and tooled, details applied; object then applied to blown shape. Fragment of appliqué: fish. Flattened tubular body; narrows slightly at head with extremity opened and tooled to form open mouth; narrows toward tail; eyes indicated by two applied blobs on top of head; long, low dorsal fin; two blobs on underside of body near head. Attached to wall of vessel.

More Info

Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
Berkowitz, Carl, Source
1976-01-01
Content, Derek, Source
1976-01-01
Smith, Ray Winfield (American, 1897-1982), Former Collection
Category: 
Roman
Color: 
Colorless, greenish-yellow
colorless
Technique: 
inflated and tooled, details applied

Publications (1)

Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, Volume Two (2001) p. 237, pl. 824; BIB# 58895