vessel
Object NameFish
Made FromGlass
Date100-199
Place MadeRoman Empire; Eastern Mediterranean
TechniqueBlown, applied, tooled
SizeOverall H (when straight stripes on body are horizontal): 10.2 cm, L: 23.6 cm, Th: 3.7 cm
Accession Number79.1.107
Credit LineBequest of Jerome Strauss
Curatorial Area(s)
Exhibitions
Poseidon and the Sea: Myth, Cult, and Daily Life
Not On View
Physical DescriptionVery pale green, transparent glass; blown (parison blown in dip mold, withdrawn, and inflated to full size and shape), applied. Flask in form of fish with deep, narrow body, which has faint horizontal ribs (three on one side, four on other). Mouth open and beak-like, formed by tooling; eyes represented by blobs and gills by trail wound spirally around parison in two revolutions; dorsal fin consists of long trail applied to top of head in front of eyes, drawn back along body, and pinched into 15 narrow projections; two pinched blobs on sides of body near “tail” represent fins; “tail” consists of tubular neck which curves back and up, and terminates in plain, rounded rim; upper neck is decorated with single continuous trail.Provenance
Source
Jerome Strauss
(1893-1978) - 1979
