English: 3rd–4th century A.D.

Free-blown glass with gilding, transparent dark violet-brown manganese with gold leaf 15 × 4.8 cm (5 7/8 × 1 3/4 in.) diameter of mouth Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Bequest of Mrs. William H. Moore 1955.6.205 Culture: Roman, Eastern Mediterranean, Syrian (?) Period: Roman or Byzantine Classification: Containers - Glass Status: Not on view Provenance:

Said to be from Damascus; von Gans Collection; Galerie Bachstitz, The Hague; Fahim Kouchakji. Bibliography:

Gustavus A. Eisen, Glass: Its Origin, History, Chronology, Technic and Classification to the Sixteenth Century, 2 vols. (New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1927), vol. 2, p. 570, plate V.

Dorothy E. Miner, ed., Early Christian and Byzantine Art: An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, April 25–June 22, exh. cat. (Baltimore: The Walters Art Museum, 1947), 123, no. 617.

Susan B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1980), 95–96, no. 257, ill.

Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 269, ill.

Richard A. Grossmann, Ancient Glass: A Guide to the Yale Collection (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2002), 19, fig. 18.

Axel von Saldern, Antikes Glas (Munich: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2004), 455, pl. 57, fig. 357.