figurine
Object NameMouse
Made FromGlass
Date200-399 or later
Place Madeperhaps Roman Empire
TechniqueBlown, applied, tooled
SizeOverall H: 4.7 cm, L: 12.7 cm
Accession Number74.1.33
Curatorial Area(s)
Exhibitions
Small Wonders Exhibition
Bottles of the World (Sekai no hei)
Glass from the Ancient World
Verres Antiques de la Collection R.W. Smith
On ViewAncient Gallery
Physical DescriptionVery pale brownish yellow, transparent glass, with pale blue streaks; blown, applied. Animal with object in its mouth. Animal has spheroid head, constriction at neck, slender pear-shaped body, and slightly upturned tubular tail with open end, all blown from one pale yellow gather. Tip of tail has plain rim with rounded lip. Yellow glass has many small bubbles, some of which are elongated. Eyes, ears, nose, mouth and object carried in it, and legs represented by blue blobs tooled to appropriate shapes: eyes are small circular disks; ears are flat semicircles: mouth is single blob tooled to form jaws, with excess glass pulled up to make nose and with two flattened blobs of glass, one on top of other, in open mouth; all four limbs are blobs that have been pinched and in three cases bent at ends to represent feet.Provenance
Source
Ray Winfield Smith
(American, 1897-1982) - 1974-12-12
