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Rod with Duck Terminal

Rod with Duck Terminal

 
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Object Name: 
Rod with Duck Terminal
Department
Ancient
Category
Roman
Place Made: 
Roman Empire
Date: 
perhaps 1-199
Color
yellowish colorless
Technique
AAT
tooling
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 22.8 cm
Accession Number: 
59.1.143
Location: 
Not on Display
Description
Yellowish colorless glass; tooled. Straight spirally-twisted rod; upper end tooled in form of duck with flat horizontal body, flattened neck and head and flat horizontal bill; shaft tapers toward lower end which terminates in loop formed by bending extremity in semi-circle and attaching short piece of another spirally-twisted rod, also bent in semi-circle.
Provenance
Smith, Ray Winfield, Source
1959-07-27

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Exhibitions

Antikes Glas aus der Sammlung Ray Winfield Smith: Kurpfalzischen Museum Heidelberg
Venue(s)
Kurpfalzischen Museum 1952-11 through 1953
Publications
1
Glass from the Ancient World
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1957-06-04 through 1957-09-15
Publications
1
 
Verres Antiques de la Collection R.W. Smith
Venue(s)
Musee de Mariemont 1954 through 1954
Publications
1

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