Vase with “Hides”
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.
about 7th-9th century
8th-9th century
13th century
4th century CE
9th-10th century
9th-10th century
Late 4th-5th century CE
Mid- to second half of first century
4th century CE
Mid- to late 4th century CE
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