Cup
Culture: Roman
Date: early 1st century A.D.
Medium: Glass
Dimensions:
height: 1 11/16 in. (4.3 cm)
diameter of rim: 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm)
diameter of foot: 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm)
Credit Line: Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection
Object number: 86.138.331
Provenance: by 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, 1986
Exhibition History: "Poor Man's Crystal: Utilitarian Glass from Ancient Rome, ca. 50 B.C. - A.D. 450," Wesleyan University, Connecticut, March 28 - May 25, 2003
“Mediterráneo—Egipto, Grecia y Roma: Vidrio, Escultura y Relieves de la Antigüedad Clasica,” Museo del Vidrio, Monterrey, Mexico, Apr. 27-Nov. 7, 2004
Published References
C. R. Richardson, Poor Man's Crystal: Utilitarian Glass from Ancient Rome, ca. 50 B.C. - A.D. 450 (San Antonio, 2003), cat. no. 7a.
Label Text
These cups, made in both monochrome and mosaic glass, derive their shape from metal and pottery shapes.
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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