Jar (stamnos)

Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean or Italy

DateMid-fourth through early third centuries BCE

DimensionsH: 8.3 cm (3 1/4 in.)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.106

Not on View

DescriptionStamnos. Cobalt-blue ground with opaque yellow and opaque white decoration. Broad uneven rim-disk, sloping diagonally inward; cylindrical neck with upward taper; obtuse-angled, straight-sided shoulder; bulbous, uneven body; convex bottom; uneven, circular cobalt-blue pad-base with a rounded edge, concave on its underside. At the middle of the body, an almost vertical cobalt-blue loop handle, twisted with an opaque white thread, one of two such handles originally present. Except for the absence of opaque turquoise-blue threads at the middle of the body and the addition of an unmarvered opaque yellow thread wound around the edge of the pad-base, the decoration is identical to the stamos in the preceding entry. Glass; core-formed, trail decorated, marvered, and tooled, with applied handles (one restored).

Published ReferencesSambon, A, "Les verres antiques," Le Musee 3, 1906, pp. 486-487, pl. 70.1.

Harden, Donald B., Catalogue of Greek and Roman Glass in the British Museum, vol. 1, London, 1981, pp. 113-114.

Grose, David F., Early Ancient Glass: Core-formed, Rod-Formed, and Cast Vessels and Objects from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Roman Empire, 1600 B.c. to A.d. 50, New York, Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, 1989, Cat. No. 156, p. 165, Repr. (col.) p. 106.

Page, Jutta-Annette, The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, 2006, p. 22, repr. (col.) fig. 3C, p. 23.

Groen, Joop van der Groen and Hans van Rossum, Romeins Glas uit Particulier Bezit, Utrecht, Martijs, 2011, pp.16-17, repr. p. 17.