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rhyton

Object NameRhyton (drinking horn)

Made FromGlass

Date75-125

Place MadeRoman Empire; possibly Eastern Mediterranean; possibly Italy

Techniqueblown, tooled

SizeOverall H: 21 cm; Mouth Diam: 10.3 cm

Accession Number87.1.2

Credit LineGift of Gawain McKinley

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Exhibitions

Glass of the Caesars

Liquid Refreshment: 2000 Years of Drinks and Drinking Glasses

The Fragile Art: Extraordinary Objects from The Corning Museum of Glass

On ViewAncient Gallery

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

Used for drinking wine, this unusually shaped vessel was designed to terminate in the head of an animal, perhaps a snail.

Physical DescriptionTransparent pale bluish-green glass with small bubbles; blown and tooled. Horn shaped rhyton with animal head on hollow conical foot; rim curves outward and upward, with lip rounded by folding outward and downward and fire-polishing; wall tapers, descending almost vertically, then curving outward and downward; terminal in form of animal's head with two knobbed "horns" and long narrow snout, open at tip; hollow conical base made from separate gather, with footrim cracked off and ground flat; no pontil mark.
Provenance

Source Gawain McKinley (British, 1945-1996) - 1987-09-15