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The Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) (r) is a structured vocabulary for generic concepts related to art and architecture. It was developed by The Getty Research Institute to help research institutions become consistent in the terminology they use.Learn More
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Primary Description:
Roughly egg-shaped ewer. Rim everted; neck cylindrical, splaying at bottom and merging with body; small base-ring made by folding. Ribbed handle, pinched at upper extremity to form thumb-rest, attached to shoulder and rim. Decorated on lower part of neck, body, and base. Decoration on neck and body divided into two registers with identical borders above, between, and below; each border consists of continuous row of gray volutes on gilded band enclosed by gray lines with outer dark red bands; upper (narrow) register contains inscription in Greek capitals, "HXAPIC" (Grace), first and last letters separated by wheel-like rosette with gray fillers to right and left, all other letters separated by red quatrefoil with gray centers; lower register depicts four gilded figures with gray outlines and details, with quatrefoil in field; Cupid incites Apollo, who is naked except for cloak and sandals, and with quiver of arrows on shoulder. Apollo runs toward right, in pursuit of Daphne; Daphne is shown in the act of changing into a bay tree; her father, Ladon, sitting on a rock and supporting horn of plenty with extended left hand, looks on.
Exhibitions (4)

Glass of the Caesars
Venue(s)
British Museum 1987-11-18 through 1988-03-06
Romisch-Germanisches Museum 1988-04-15 through 1988-10-18
Musei Capitolini 1988-11-03 through 1989-01-31
Corning Museum of Glass

Glass from the Ancient World
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1957-06-04 through 1957-09-15

Ancient Art in American Private Collections
Venue(s)
Fogg Art Museum 1954

Verres Antiques de la Collection R.W. Smith
Venue(s)
Musee de Mariemont 1954 through 1954
Publications (58)
Fire and Ice: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum (2012)
illustrated, p. 34, fig. 68;
Antikes Glas (Handbuch der Archaologie) (2004)
illustrated, p. 437, 445, 535, 544, 545 (Taf. 360);
BIB# 83444
The Corning Museum of Glass, A Guide to the Collections (2001) (2001)
illustrated, p. 41;
BIB# 68214
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass: Checklist of the Exhibition (1999)
illustrated, p. 37;
BIB# 63967
Untersuchungen zu den Glasern un Gipsabgussen aus dem Fund von Begram/Afghanistan (1998)
illustrated, pl. 4, no. 3; pp. 24-25;
BIB# 57685
Enciclopedia Dell'Arte Antica, classica e orientale (1997)
illustrated, p. 1024, fig. 1299, left;
Glass, Gold, and Gold-Glasses (1996)
illustrated, pp. 6-7, fig. 4;
Domestic and Divine: Roman Mosaics in the House of Dionysos (1994)
illustrated, pp. 163, 165 (fig. 103); pp. 170-171 (fig. 107-108); p. 173;
BIB# 35773
Corning Museum of Glass. Newsletter (Summer'93) (1993)
illustrated, p. 3;
Masterpieces of Glass: A World History From The Corning Museum of Glass (1990)
illustrated, pp. 46-47, pl. 15;
BIB# 33819
Masterpieces of Glass: A World History from The Corning Museum of Glass (1980)
pp. 46-47, pl. 15;
BIB# 20953
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1974) (1974)
illustrated, pp. 18-19, #14;
BIB# 28793
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1965) (1965)
illustrated, pp. 18-19, #14;
BIB# 27582
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1958) (1958)
illustrated, pp. 20-21, #12;
BIB# 27746
Glass from the Ancient World: The Ray Winfield Smith Collection (1957)
illustrated, pp. 165-166, #342;
BIB# 27315
A Masterpiece of Late Roman Glass Painting (1956)
esp. p. 15;
A Masterpiece of Late Roman Glass Painting (1956)
esp. p. 15;
Title Unknown (London News) (1955-04-09)
p. 653, fig. 12;
Verrerie Antique (1954-09)
illustrated, p. 14-15;
Catalogue des Verres Antiques de la Collection Ray Winfield Smith (1954)
illustrated, p. 27, #123, col. pl. IV-V;
BIB# 28196
A Glass Bowl with the "Judgment of Paris" (1953-06)
esp pp. 87, 184;
Das Maerchen von einem Glase aus Antiochia (1951-08-26)
Catalogue of Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiquities, Stone Age and Bronze Age implements and Benin bronzes. (1949-10-18)
illustrated, p. 26 Lot #282;
BIB# 16212
Ein bisher verkanntes romisches Goldglass mit christl. Wuderscenen in der roem. Abteilung des Wallraf-Richartz-Museums zu Koln (1930)
pp. 282-304, esp. p. 298, # 32, B.1;
The excavations at Dura-Europos, conducted by Yale University and the French Academy of inscriptions and letters: preliminary report of seasons of work (1929-)
pp. 253;
BIB# 19567
Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archaologischen Instituts (1926)
XLI, p. 81;
Galerie Bachstitz's-Gravenhage. Bd. 2, Antike, byzantinische, islamische Arbeiten der Kleinkunst und des Kunstgewerbes, antike Skulpturen (1921)
p. 60;
BIB# 6291
Late Hellenistic Painted Glass Vases and the History of Decorative Painting (1914)
pp. 1-26, esp p. 13, pl. 5, 24.3, 3P;