Fragment with Bird

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Object Name: 
Fragment with Bird
Place Made: 
Roman Empire
Eastern Mediterranean
Accession Number: 
55.1.89
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 7.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
300-399 or later
Primary Description: 
Transparent deep purple glass with reddish tinge in transmitted light; some small bubbles; blown, wheel-cut and polished. Fragment from wall of deep vessel with curving side, perhaps hemispherical; exterior has band of hollow-cut ornament between borders; upper border consists of broad horizontal groove with narrow groove above and below; lower border is single narrow groove; ornament consists of plump water fowl standing to left, in front of building with gabled roof; on ground in front of and behind bird, leaves on short stem; above and behind bird, longer spray of leaves.

More Info

Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
Smith, Ray Winfield (American, 1897-1982), Source
1955-12-13
Category: 
Roman
Color: 
deep purple
red
Technique: 
glassblowing
cutting
polishing
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (3)

The Copts: Crossroads in Egyptian Culture, 2nd-7th Centuries A.D.
Venue(s)
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design 1989-02-10 through 1989-04-16
Walters Art Gallery 1989-05-17 through 1989-07-15
Glass from the Ancient World
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1957-06-04 through 1957-09-15
 
Verres Antiques de la Collection R.W. Smith
Venue(s)
Musee de Mariemont 1954 through 1954

Publications (5)

Antikes Glas (Handbuch der Archaologie) (2004) illustrated, p. 436 (Taf. 341); BIB# 83444
Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, Volume One (1997) p. 280, #473; p. 379, #473; BIB# 58895
Beyond the Pharaohs: Egypt and the Copts in the 2nd to 7th Centuries A. D. (1989) illustrated, p. 117, no. 25; BIB# 24703
Glass from the Ancient World: The Ray Winfield Smith Collection (1957) illustrated, pp. 181-183, #369; BIB# 27315
Catalogue des Verres Antiques de la Collection Ray Winfield Smith (1954) p. 36, #197; BIB# 28196