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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
DescriptionThis core-formed glass stamnos features a cobalt-blue ground with decoration in opaque yellow and opaque white. The vessel has a broad, uneven rim-disk sloping diagonally inward, a cylindrical neck tapering upward, and a straight-sided shoulder set at an obtuse angle. Its bulbous, uneven body ends in a convex bottom with a circular cobalt-blue pad-base, rounded at the edge and concave underneath. One of the two original loop handles remains: an almost vertical cobalt-blue handle twisted with an opaque white thread, attached at the middle of the body. A unmarvered opaque yellow thread is wound around the pad-base. This vessel’s decoration matches that of the stamnos in the preceding entry, except for the omission of turquoise-blue threads at mid-body. The vessel is core-formed, trail-decorated, marvered, and tooled, with applied handles (one of which is 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.

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