Arm and Hand from Composite Statuette

Object Name: 
Arm and Hand from Composite Statuette

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Object Name: 
Arm and Hand from Composite Statuette
Place Made: 
perhaps Egypt
Roman Empire
Accession Number: 
74.1.52
Dimensions: 
Overall W: 5.8 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
probably 1-399
Primary Description: 
Transparent pale yellowish green glass; cast, probably drilled, ground, polished. Right hand and arm, from middle of upper arm to tips of fingers, represented three dimensionally; at upper extremity, cylindrical tenon (L.0.4 cm); elbow bent at 90°; hand has thumb and first two fingers extended, third and fourth fingers closed as if grasping cylindrical object.

More Info

Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
Smith, Ray Winfield (American, 1897-1982), Source
1974-12-12
Category: 
Roman
Color: 
Trasnparent yellowish=green
Technique: 
cast, prob. drilled, ground, polished
casting
ground glass

Exhibitions (1)

Glass from the Ancient World
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1957-06-04 through 1957-09-15

Publications (2)

Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, Volume One (1997) p. 30, #28; p. 326, #28; BIB# 58895
Glass from the Ancient World: The Ray Winfield Smith Collection (1957) p. 113, #188a; BIB# 27315