Rhyton (drinking horn)

Object Name: 
Rhyton (drinking horn)

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Object Name: 
Rhyton (drinking horn)
Place Made: 
Roman Empire
possibly Italy
possibly Eastern Mediterranean
Accession Number: 
87.1.2
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 21 cm; Mouth Diam: 10.3 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
75-125
Credit Line: 
Gift of Gawain McKinley
Web Description: 
Used for drinking wine, this unusually shaped vessel was designed to terminate in the head of an animal, perhaps a snail.

More Info

Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
McKinley, Gawain (British, 1945-1996), Source
1987-09-15
Category: 
Roman
Color: 
light bluish green
Technique: 
glassblowing
hot-working
Material: 
glass

Description

Primary Description: 
Transparent pale bluish-green glass with small bubbles; blown and tooled. Horn shaped rhyton with animal head on hollow conical foot; rim curves outward and upward, with lip rounded by folding outward and downward and fire-polishing; wall tapers, descending almost vertically, then curving outward and downward; terminal in form of animal's head with two knobbed "horns" and long narrow snout, open at tip; hollow conical base made from separate gather, with footrim cracked off and ground flat; no pontil mark.

Exhibitions (3)

The Fragile Art: Extraordinary Objects from The Corning Museum of Glass
Venue(s)
Park Avenue Armory 2009-01-23 through 2009-02-01
The 55th Annual Winter Antiques Show
Liquid Refreshment: 2000 Years of Drinks and Drinking Glasses
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1993-04-24 through 1994-12-31
 
Glass of the Caesars
Venue(s)
British Museum 1987-11-18 through 1988-03-06
Romisch-Germanisches Museum 1988-04-15 through 1988-10-18
Musei Capitolini 1988-11-03 through 1989-01-31
Corning Museum of Glass

Publications (8)

Afghanistan: Forging Civilizations along the Silk Road (2012) illustrated, p. 56, fig. 5; BIB# 132698
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass: Checklist of the Exhibition (1999) illustrated, p. 5; BIB# 63967
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass: 32 Ready-to-Mail Full-Color Postcards (1998) illustrated, #5; BIB# 61155
Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, Volume One (1997) pp. 118-119, #184; p. 341, #184; BIB# 58895
Liquid Refreshment Exhibition to Open at Corning Museum (1993-03-26) illustrated, p. 51; BIB# AI101368
L'Histoire du Verre: A Travers Les Tresors du Musee de Corning (1990) illustrated, pp. 56-57;
Recent Important Acquisitions, 30 (1988) illustrated, p. 102, #3; BIB# AI20606
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1987 (1988) illustrated, pp. 5, 8; BIB# AI96382

Multimedia (1)

Drinking Horn - Family
Video