flask
- Museum number
- 1881,0624.2
- Description
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Colourless green-tinged blown glass dropper flask in the form of an inverted gladiator's helmet, with a folded rim and a funnel neck. The pontil mark is on the crest of the helmet. Decorated with 'snake-thread' trails in opaque green, red and white, clear blue, and colourless. When the flask is inverted (and the helmet is the right way up) a blue trail, tooled flat and milled across the forehead, provides a nose and side whiskers. Birds on either side of the face are formed by unmilled thin trails of the same colourless (clear) glass as the vessel. The birds stand on a berried twig of opaque white with red berries, and a green twig and petals. The birds' eyes are colourless coils with opaque white and blue pupils.
- Production date
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3rdC
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200 - 300
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 5 centimetres (rim)
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Height: 10.20 centimetres
- Location
- On display (G70/dc17)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1987 25 Apr-19 Oct, USA, Corning, Corning Museum of Glass, Glass of the Caesars
1987 18 Nov-1988 15 Mar, London, British Museum, Glass of the Caesars
1988 15 Apr-26 Jul, Germany, Cologne, Römisch-Germanisches Museum, Glass of the Caesars
1988 30 Sep-1989 6 Jan, Italy, Rome, Museo Capitolino, Glass of the Caesars
- Acquisition date
- 1881
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1881,0624.2
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: DBH.1467