beaker
Object NameBeaker with Dolphins
Made FromGlass
Date275-325
Techniqueblown, applied snake thread decoration
SizeOverall H: 20.4 cm; Rim Diam: 7.4 cm
Accession Number82.1.1
Curatorial Area(s)
Exhibitions
Glass of the Caesars
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass
The Art of Glass: Masterpieces from The Corning Museum of Glass
Interpretive NotesThis drinking vessel was decorated with sinuous snake-thread trails of molten glass patterned to form the bodies of leaping dolphins.
Germany, Rhineland
Provenance
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probably 1400-1300 BCE
1400-1360 BCE
399-200 BCE
1300-1399
about 800-999
beaker made about 1000-1199; assembled probably 1900-1979