Rod with Duck Terminal

Object Name: 
Rod with Duck Terminal

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Object Name: 
Rod with Duck Terminal
Place Made: 
Roman Empire
Accession Number: 
59.1.143
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 22.8 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
perhaps 1-199
Primary Description: 
Yellowish colorless glass; tooled. Straight spirally-twisted rod; upper end tooled in form of duck with flat horizontal body, flattened neck and head and flat horizontal bill; shaft tapers toward lower end which terminates in loop formed by bending extremity in semi-circle and attaching short piece of another spirally-twisted rod, also bent in semi-circle.

More Info

Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
Smith, Ray Winfield (American, 1897-1982), Source
1959-07-27
Category: 
Roman
Color: 
yellowish colorless
Technique: 
tooling

Exhibitions (3)

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
 
Antikes Glas aus der Sammlung Ray Winfield Smith: Kurpfalzischen Museum Heidelberg
Venue(s)
Kurpfalzischen Museum 1952-11 through 1953