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Object NameRod with Bird Terminal
Made FromGlass
Dateperhaps 1-199
Place MadeRoman Empire
Techniquetooled, applied
SizeOverall L: 9 cm; Rod Diam: 0.3 cm
Accession Number95.1.79
Credit LineBequest of Jerome Strauss
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
Physical DescriptionVery pale green, transparent (rod); greenish blue, translucent (bird) glasses; tooled. Straight, spirally twisted rod tapering to point at lower end; upper end has applied terminal in form of bird, with bulbous body drawn out to make horizontal, pointed tail and spheroid head which is perforated from side to side to simulate eyes and drawn out at front to make curved beak.
Provenance
Source Jerome Strauss (1893-1978) - 1979

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