drinking-vessel
- Museum number
- 1863,0727.9
- Description
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Bottom of a drinking vessel, with foot rim; glass; gilded decoration in a the circular field divided into two halves: in the upper half stand four beardless figures (probably St Peter, St Paul, St Sixtus and St Laurence) in tunic and pallium holding rolls in their hands and separated by spirally fluted columns with foliated capitals connected by a festoon-like curtain; above, an inscription; on either side of three figures are their names. The lower half contains three bearded half-figures (St Ippolitus, Christ and St Timothy) their names in the field; Christ(?) is in the centre and holds a roll in his hand; the space behind St Timothy is occupied by a roll.
- Production date
- 4thC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 91 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- Published: H. Tait (ed.), Masterpieces of Glass, London, 1968, no 92; Exh. cat., Glass of the Caesars, Milan, 1987, no 159
- 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 (632)
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Vopel 1899 / Die altchristlichen Goldgläser (305)
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Garrucci 1858 / Vetri Ornati di Figure in Oro trovati nei Cimiteri dei Christiani Primitivi di Roma (tav.XVII, fig.2, p.38)
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Morey 1959 / The Gold-Glass Collection of the Vatican Library (no.344, p.57, pl.XXX)
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Howells 2015 / A Catalogue of the Late Antique Gold Glass in the British Museum (p.14-15, p.20, p.25, p.30, p.31, table.1, p.34, table.4, p.37, table.6, p.39, p.82, pl.50, p.59, p.70, p.71-88, p.79-84, p.82-83, p.82, pl.50, p.164) (Cat.13)
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Tait 1991 / Five Thousand Years of Glass (123)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2011 23 June-9 Oct, London, BM, Treasures of Heaven
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
- Acquisition date
- 1863
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1863,0727.9
