drinking-vessel
- Museum number
- 1863,0727.6
- Description
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Bottom of a drinking vessel; glass; gilded decoration: within a square and then a lozenge, a bust of Christ; he wears a tunic and mantle fastened with a circular brooch; either side of the head an inscription with five dots; within each of the angles of the outer square is a bust flanked by two dots; issuing from each side of the square is a triangle.
- Production date
- 4thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 90 millimetres
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Width: 77 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Published: H. Tait (ed.), Masterpieces of Glass, London, 1968, no 91; Exh. cat., Glass of the Caesars, Milan, 1987, no 158.
- Bibliographic references
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Dalton 1901 / Catalogue of Early Christian Antiquities and Objects from the Christian East in the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum (630)
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Vopel 1899 / Die altchristlichen Goldgläser (297)
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Garrucci 1858 / Vetri Ornati di Figure in Oro trovati nei Cimiteri dei Christiani Primitivi di Roma (tav.XVIII, fig.1, p.39-40)
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Morey 1959 / The Gold-Glass Collection of the Vatican Library (no.305, p.52-3, pl.XXIX)
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Howells 2015 / A Catalogue of the Late Antique Gold Glass in the British Museum (cover, p.14-15, p.20, p.30, p.31, table.1, p.34, table.4, p.37, table.6, p.39, p.56, p.70, p.71-88, p.79-84, p.80-81, p.80, pl.47, p.86, p.164) (Cat.11)
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Spier et al. 2007 / Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christian Art (45)
- Location
- On display (G41/dc8/sA)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2012-2013 Oct- Mar, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Constantine 313 A.D.
2011 23 June-9 Oct, London, BM, Treasures of Heaven
2007 18 Nov-2008 30 Mar, USA, Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christian Art
1988 30 Sep-1989 6 Jan, Italy, Rome, Museo Capitolino, Glass of the Caesars
1988 15 Apr-26 Jul, Germany, Cologne, Römisch-Germanisches Museum, Glass of the Caesars
1987 18 Nov-1988 15 Mar, London, British Museum, Glass of the Caesars
1987 25 Apr-19 Oct, USA, Corning, Corning Museum of Glass, Glass of the Caesars
- Condition
- The glass is of exceptional thickness.
- Acquisition date
- 1863
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1863,0727.6
