Flask: Head of a Young Man, Probably Antinous as Dionysos
Flask: Head of a Young Man, Probably Antinous as Dionysos
Place of OriginPossibly Turkey
Dateabout 200 CE
DimensionsH: 16.7 cm (6 9/16 in.); Max Diam: 8.5 cm (3 3/8 in.)
MediumColorless glass; blown in a full-size, three-part mold of two vertical sections and a separate disk-shaped base section
ClassificationGlass
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1979.53
Not on View
Collections
Published ReferencesCatalogue of the Constable-Maxwell Collection of Ancient Glass, Sotheby-Parke-Bernet and Co., London, June 4-5, 1979, p. 71, no. 113.
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Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 21, no. 4, 1979, p. 79.
Journal of Glass Studies, vol. 22, 1980, p. 89.
Stern, E. Marianne, Roman Mold-Blown Glass: The First through Sixth Centuries, 1995, pp. 230-232, no. 148, color pl. 25.
Page, Jutta-Annette, The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, Toledo Museum of Art, 2006, p. 40, fig. 13B, repr. (col.) p. 41.
Peck, William H., Sandra E. Knudsen and Paula Reich, Egypt in Toledo: The Ancient Egyptian Collection at the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, 2011, p. 102, repr. (col.).
Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Out of Sight, June 18-Aug. 29, 2010 (no cat.).Toledo Museum of Art, The Egypt Experience: Secrets of the Tomb, October 29, 2010-January 8, 2012.
Third century
Second half of the first century CE
Probably late second century
Late 19th century
Probably late third or fourth century
Third century
Probably late third or fourth century
Late 2nd to early 3rd century CE
Second half of the 1st century CE
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