Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Bottle with Colored Glass Trails ("Snake-Threads")
late 2nd-mid 3rd century CE (Roman Imperial)
glass, gold leaf
(Roman Empire )
(Roman Empire )
Small transparent glass bottle with threads of white, brown, blue glass forming vegetal motifs and U-shapes.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
Joseph Brummer, New York, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore,1927, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 1982 | 3000 Years of Glass: Treasures from The Walters Art Gallery. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| 5/30/2016 | Examination | Examined for photography. |
| 5/30/2016 | Examination | The vase has one loss with radiating blind cracks. The loss is ancient as the broken edges are worn, weathered and pitted. There are no detached fragments or old repairs. The white banded clear vase is decorated with trailed glass "trees" and U-shapes. The "leaves" on the trees are made by encasing gold leaf between body and applied clear glass. The opaque white bands are lost; only traces remain under the flared rim. The loss areas are etched, matte and suffer some cleavage or flaking. Most of the sandwiched gold "leaves" is lost. |
Geographies
Roman Empire
(Place of Origin)
Germany, Cologne (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Overall H: 5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1927
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
47.57