Zoomorphic flask with surrounding cage
Zoomorphic flask with surrounding cage
Place of OriginSyria
Date7th-8th century
DimensionsH: 12.7 cm (5 in.); L: 8.5 cm (3 3/8 in.)
MediumGlass; free blown, hot tooled, and applied decoration
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.2044
Not on View
DescriptionBrownish colorless and vivid turquoise-blue glass; flask blown and tooled; cage and animal features applied and tooled on the pontil
Published ReferencesDolez, Albane, Glass Animals: 3,500 Years of Artistry and Design, New York, 1988, repr. p. 37.
Page, Jutta-Annette, The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, 2006, p. 56, repr. (col.) fig. 20C, p. 57.
Exhibition HistoryHouston, Museum of Natural Science; San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences; Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute; Washington, National Museum of Natural History; Brooklyn Museum, The Heritage of Islam, 1982-84.New York, Steuben Glass Gallery, Glass Animals, 1988, (no cat. or checklist).
Worcester Art Museum; Cleveland Museum of Art; Baltimore Museum of Art, Antioch: the Lost Ancient City, 2000-2001, no. 84, p. 195, repr. (col.).
Possibly 7th-8th century
3rd-4th century CE
Late fourth to late fifth century
Second to third quarter of fourth century CE
Second to third quarter of fourth century CE
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Possibly late 19th or early 20th century
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