Fragment with Figure

Object Name: 
Fragment with Figure

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Object Name: 
Fragment with Figure
Place Made: 
possibly Egypt
Roman Empire
Accession Number: 
59.1.84
Dimensions: 
Overall Diam: 3.9 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
75-125
Primary Description: 
Fragment with Figure. Colorless glass decorated with colored enamel; blown, painted, fired, enameled. Vessel with curving side; painted on outside with lower part of standing male figure with short tunic and boots, both yellow with brown outlines, folds and other details; legs are depicted with pink skin, again with brown outline; to figure's right, part of curving brown object.

More Info

Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
Smith, Ray Winfield (American, 1897-1982), Source
1959-07-27
Category: 
Roman
Color: 
pink
colorless
yellow
brown
Technique: 
glassblowing
painting
firing
enameling
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (1)

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

Publications (7)

Chemical Analyses of Early Glasses (Volume 3) (2012) pp. 368, 369, 682; BIB# 61154
Richard La Londe and Friends (2009) illustrated, p. 27, mid right; BIB# 112312
Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, Volume Two (2001) p. 259, pl. 855; BIB# 58895
Chemical Analyses of Early Glasses (Volume 2) (1999) p. 137; BIB# 61154
Chemical Analyses of Early Glasses (Volume 1) (1999) pp. 75, 249; BIB# 61154
Beyond the Pharaohs: Egypt and the Copts in the 2nd to 7th Centuries A. D. (1989) illustrated, p. 118, no. 26; BIB# 24703
Glass from the Ancient World: The Ray Winfield Smith Collection (1957) illustrated, pp. 168-169, #345; BIB# 27315