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San Antonio Museum of Art, Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection.
Lamp
San Antonio Museum of Art, Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection.
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Lamp

DepartmentAncient Mediterranean Art
CultureRoman
Date4th - 5th century A.D.
MediumGlass
Dimensionsheight: 5 1/2 in. (14 cm)
diameter of rim: 3 11/16 in. (9.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection
Object number86.138.463
DescriptionFree-blown lamp of colorless glass with added purple. Conical body, flaring slightly at rim. Three marvered oval bosses, of purple glass, added at mid-body. Two lathe-cut lines, one just below rim, the other at mid-body, below the marvered ovals.Label TextConical glass vessels like this one could serve as lamps or as drinking cups. (Jessica Powers, 2018)ProvenanceBy purchase, the Stark family, Orange, Texas, between 1927 and 1929; by bequest, the Nelda C. and H. J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, 1965; by purchase, the San Antonio Museum of Art with funding from Mr. and Mrs. Robert Willson, 1986Exhibition History"Poor Man's Crystal: Utilitarian Glass from Ancient Rome, ca. 50 B.C. - A.D. 450," Wesleyan University, Connecticut, March 28 - May 25, 2003Published ReferencesCaroline M. Richardson, Poor Man's Crystal: Utilitarian Glass from Ancient Rome, ca. 50 B.C. - A.D. 450 (San Antonio, 2003), cat. no. 4
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