Vase with “Hides”

Place of OriginSyria

Date7th-8th century

DimensionsH: 3 1/4 in. (8.2 cm); Diam: 2 3/4 in. (7 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown and tooled on the pontil with applied trails

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.2028

Not on View

DescriptionGreenish colorless and purplish-brown glass. Wide conical neck; spherical body; shoulder decorated with applied purple zig-zag; body decorated with four light yellow motifs in shape of inverted triangle, alternating with four purple triangles; all triangles have folded edges.

Published ReferencesPage, Jutta-Annette, The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, 2006, p. 56, repr. (col.) fig. 20A, p. 57.