Lamp

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Object Name: 
Lamp
Place Made: 
Roman Empire
Eastern Mediterranean
Accession Number: 
51.1.101
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 16.7 cm; Rim Diam: 12.6 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
300-399
Primary Description: 
Lamp. Transparent, pale yellowish green glass; semi-transparent deep blue blobs; blown (possibly in mold), applied and wheel-cut. Plain, beveled rim cracked off and ground; straight side tapering to narrow base with slight indentation; no pontil mark; three horizontal unpolished wheel-cut grooves immediately below rim, 3.0 cm father down, and 8.0 cm above base; between middle and lowest groove, band of three vertical oval blobs alternating with three similar groups of six smaller vertical blobs in triangular formation (three above two above one).

More Info

Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
Safani, Esteban, Former Collection
Category: 
Roman
Color: 
Pale yellowish green
blue
Technique: 
glassblowing
applied decoration
wheel-cut
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (2)

Ambrose and Agustine: The Origins of Europe
Venue(s)
Museo Diocesano 2003-11-01 through 2004-06-01
(exhibit title) Ambrogio e Agostino: Le sorgenti dell'Europe
Treasures in Glass
Venue(s)
Allentown Art Museum 1966 through 1966
 

Publications (3)

387 d.c./ambrogio e agostino/le sorgenti dell'europa (2003) illustrated, p. 251, no. 23; p. 356; BIB# 78110
Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, Volume One (1997) p. 214, #368; p. 364, #368; BIB# 58895
Treasures in Glass (1966) pp. 20, 23, #19; BIB# 28036